Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Imaging Biological Samples with Optical Microscopy

Imaging Biological Samples with Optical Microscopy

Optical microscopy uses optic principles to provide detailed images of samples. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek designed the first compound optical microscope in the 17th century to visualize blood cells, bacteria, and yeast cells. In 1830, Joseph Jackson Lister created an essentially modern light microscope. The 20th century saw the development of microscopes with enhanced magnification and resolution.
In optical microscopy, the specimen to be viewed is placed on a glass slide and clipped on the stage...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Experimental demonstration of high space compression by optical spaceplates.

Nature communications·2026

Same author

Parametric Amplification of Optical Pulses through Synthetic Motion in a Time-Varying Medium.

Nano letters·2026

Same author

Epsilon-near-zero time-gate for high-fidelity spatial information transfer through dynamic scattering media.

Nature communications·2026

Same author

Interactions of Fundamental Mie Modes with Thin Epsilon-near-Zero Substrates.

Nano letters·2023

Same author

Strongly Coupled Plasmon Polaritons in Gold and Epsilon-Near-Zero Bifilms.

ACS photonics·2023

Same author

Fourier-Engineered Plasmonic Lattice Resonances.

ACS nano·2022

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Nov 2, 2025

Lensfree On-chip Tomographic Microscopy Employing Multi-angle Illumination and Pixel Super-resolution

Lensfree On-chip Tomographic Microscopy Employing Multi-angle Illumination and Pixel Super-resolution

Published on: August 16, 2012

An optic to replace space and its application towards ultra-thin imaging systems.

Orad Reshef¹, Michael P DelMastro², Katherine K M Bearne²

¹Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. orad@reshef.ca.

Nature Communications

|June 11, 2021

Summary

Researchers developed a novel optical

More Related Videos

Multimodal Volumetric Retinal Imaging by Oblique Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy oSLO and Optical Coherence Tomography OCT

Multimodal Volumetric Retinal Imaging by Oblique Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy oSLO and Optical Coherence Tomography OCT

Published on: August 4, 2018

Wideband Optical Detector of Ultrasound for Medical Imaging Applications

Wideband Optical Detector of Ultrasound for Medical Imaging Applications

Published on: May 11, 2014

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Nov 2, 2025

Lensfree On-chip Tomographic Microscopy Employing Multi-angle Illumination and Pixel Super-resolution

Lensfree On-chip Tomographic Microscopy Employing Multi-angle Illumination and Pixel Super-resolution

Published on: August 16, 2012

Multimodal Volumetric Retinal Imaging by Oblique Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy oSLO and Optical Coherence Tomography OCT

Multimodal Volumetric Retinal Imaging by Oblique Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy oSLO and Optical Coherence Tomography OCT

Published on: August 4, 2018

Wideband Optical Detector of Ultrasound for Medical Imaging Applications

Wideband Optical Detector of Ultrasound for Medical Imaging Applications

Published on: May 11, 2014

Area of Science:

Optics and Photonics
Nanotechnology
Imaging Science

Background:

Traditional imaging systems rely on lenses, with centuries of focus on improving their performance and functionality.
Nanotechnology introduced metalenses, offering miniaturization potential for imaging devices.
The significant space between lenses in optical systems remains a major limitation for device compactness.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce and demonstrate the 'spaceplate', an optical component designed to address the space limitations in imaging systems.
To enable the creation of ultra-thin, monolithic imaging devices.
To explore broader applications of spaceplate technology in optical device miniaturization.

Main Methods:

Conceptualization and theoretical design of the spaceplate.
Experimental demonstration of the spaceplate's light propagation capabilities.
Fabrication of engineered surfaces to create the spaceplate optic.

Main Results:

Successfully demonstrated an optical spaceplate that effectively propagates light over distances much longer than its physical thickness.
Validated the concept of an optic that manipulates the effective optical path length.
Showcased the potential for significant size reduction in optical systems.

Conclusions:

The spaceplate offers a groundbreaking solution to reduce the bulk of optical systems by effectively shortening the required light propagation distance.
This innovation paves the way for ultra-thin cameras and miniaturized optical devices.
Spaceplate technology has wide-ranging applications in solar concentrators, light collimators, integrated optics, and spectrometers.