Wavefront Engineering for Scintillation-Based Imaging
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| author | Chen, Joshua Vaidya, Sachin Pajovic, Simo Choi, Seou Michaels, William Martin-Monier, Louis Hu, Juejun Cogswell, Carol Roques-Carmes, Charles Soljačić, Marin |
| author_facet | Chen, Joshua Vaidya, Sachin Pajovic, Simo Choi, Seou Michaels, William Martin-Monier, Louis Hu, Juejun Cogswell, Carol Roques-Carmes, Charles Soljačić, Marin |
| contents | Recent research in nanophotonics for scintillation-based imaging has demonstrated promising improvements in scintillator performance. In parallel, advances in nanophotonics have enabled wavefront control through metasurfaces, a capability that has transformed fields such as microscopy by allowing tailored control of optical propagation. This naturally raises the following question, which we address in this perspective: can wavefront-control strategies be leveraged to improve scintillation-based imaging? To answer this question, we explore nanophotonic- and metasurface-enabled wavefront control in scintillators to mitigate image blurring arising from their intrinsically diffuse light emission. While depth-of-field extension in scintillation faces fundamental limitations absent in microscopy, this approach reveals promising avenues, including stacked scintillators, selective spatial-frequency enhancement, and X-ray energy-dependent imaging. These results clarify the key distinctions in adapting wavefront engineering to scintillation and its potential to enable tailored detection strategies. |
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| spellingShingle | Wavefront Engineering for Scintillation-Based Imaging Chen, Joshua Vaidya, Sachin Pajovic, Simo Choi, Seou Michaels, William Martin-Monier, Louis Hu, Juejun Cogswell, Carol Roques-Carmes, Charles Soljačić, Marin Optics Recent research in nanophotonics for scintillation-based imaging has demonstrated promising improvements in scintillator performance. In parallel, advances in nanophotonics have enabled wavefront control through metasurfaces, a capability that has transformed fields such as microscopy by allowing tailored control of optical propagation. This naturally raises the following question, which we address in this perspective: can wavefront-control strategies be leveraged to improve scintillation-based imaging? To answer this question, we explore nanophotonic- and metasurface-enabled wavefront control in scintillators to mitigate image blurring arising from their intrinsically diffuse light emission. While depth-of-field extension in scintillation faces fundamental limitations absent in microscopy, this approach reveals promising avenues, including stacked scintillators, selective spatial-frequency enhancement, and X-ray energy-dependent imaging. These results clarify the key distinctions in adapting wavefront engineering to scintillation and its potential to enable tailored detection strategies. |
| title | Wavefront Engineering for Scintillation-Based Imaging |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09830 |