Ultrasonic super-oscillation wave-packets with an acoustic meta-lens

Ya-Xi Shen; Yu-Gui Peng; Feiyan Cai; Kun Huang; De-Gang Zhao; Cheng-Wei Qiu; Hairong Zheng; Xue-Feng Zhu

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11430-3

Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Ultrasonic super-oscillation wave-packets with an acoustic meta-lens

Ya-Xi Shen,
Yu-Gui Peng,
Feiyan Cai,
Kun Huang,
De-Gang Zhao,
Cheng-Wei Qiu,
Hairong Zheng,
Xue-Feng Zhu

Affiliations

Ya-Xi Shen: School of Physics and Innovation Institute, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Yu-Gui Peng: School of Physics and Innovation Institute, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Feiyan Cai: Paul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science
Kun Huang: Department of Optics and Optical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China
De-Gang Zhao: School of Physics and Innovation Institute, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Cheng-Wei Qiu: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore
Hairong Zheng: Paul C. Lauterbur Research Center for Biomedical Imaging, Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science
Xue-Feng Zhu: School of Physics and Innovation Institute, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11430-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Here, the authors propose an ultrasonic meta-lens for generating super-oscillation wave packets with different spatial momenta and then superimposing them to a diffraction-limit-broken spot. They experimentally verify super-resolution ultrasound imaging of subwavelength objects.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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