Terahertz scanning near-field optical microscopy for biomedical detection: Recent advances, challenges, and future perspectives

S Yan, G Cheng, Z Yang, Y Guo, L Chen, Y Fu… - Biotechnology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Terahertz (THz) radiation is widely recognized as a non-destructive, label-free, and highly-
sensitive tool for biomedical detections. Nevertheless, its application in precision biomedical …

Subwavelength terahertz imaging via virtual superlensing in the radiating near field

A Tuniz, BT Kuhlmey - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Imaging with resolutions much below the wavelength λ–now common in the visible spectrum–
remains challenging at lower frequencies, where exponentially decaying evanescent waves …

A low-loss hollow-core waveguide bundle for terahertz imaging under a cryogenic environment

B Chen, K Zhou, J Shao, X Zhao, B Xu, J Zhu… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Optical fiber bundles have been widely used in microendoscopic biomedical imaging,
Raman microscopy, and depth-resolved imaging due to their flexibility, long-distance …

High Kerr nonlinearity of water in THz spectral range

AN Tcypkin, MV Melnik, MO Zhukova, IO Vorontsova… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The values of the nonlinear refractive index coefficient for various materials in the terahertz
frequency range exceed the ones in both visible and NIR ranges by several orders of …

Terahertz nonlinear spectroscopy of water vapor

P Rasekh, A Safari, M Yildirim, R Bhardwaj… - Acs …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The water molecule has millions of rotational transitions in the infrared and terahertz region,
and the resulting absorption features dominate the transmission spectrum of atmospheric …

Superresolution imaging using a tapered bundle of high-refractive-index optical fibers

GM Katyba, M Skorobogatiy, DG Melikyants… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
The spatial resolution of an optical fiber bundle is limited by the size of a mode propagating
in an individual fiber, which can be as small as a single wavelength approximately λ for …

Overcoming the Abbe diffraction limit using a bundle of metal‐coated high‐refractive‐index sapphire optical fibers

KI Zaytsev, GM Katyba… - Advanced Optical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
While fiber bundles attract much interest in optics, their resolution is limited by the individual
fiber size, which can be as large as a wavelength λ for common fiber optics materials. In …

Dual-band electromagnetically induced transparency terahertz metamaterial based on U-like resonator and metallic cut wire for sensing application

G Duan, C Xu, W Xu, Y Gao, X Zhang… - Engineering …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, a new scheme for dual-band terahertz electromagnetically induced
transparency (EIT) is reported using a simple metamaterial structure, whose surface …

A prism based magnifying hyperlens with broad-band imaging

MS Habib, A Stefani, S Atakaramians… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Magnification in metamaterial hyperlenses has been demonstrated using curved geometries
or tapered devices, at frequencies ranging from the microwave to the ultraviolet spectrum …

Measurement and simulation of the polarization-dependent Purcell factor in a microwave fishnet metamaterial

K Rustomji, R Abdeddaim, CM De Sterke, B Kuhlmey… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We determine, experimentally and numerically, the electric and magnetic Purcell factors in a
fishnet metamaterial in the frequency range 5–15 GHz by measuring the impedance of a …