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Pawel Matryba

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arXiv2026

Near-infrared lensless holographic microscopy on a visible sensor enables label-free high-throughput imaging in strong scattering

Lensless digital holographic microscopy (LDHM) relies on interference between an unscattered reference wave and a weakly scattered object wave - an assumption that rapidly fails in turbid samples under multiple scattering. To overcome this limitation, we present near-infrared LDHM (NIR-LDHM), a in-line holographic platform that operates up to the silicon cutoff (~1100 nm) using a conventional board-level CMOS sensor designed for visible (VIS) imaging. Using tissue-mimicking milk scattering layers and calibrated resolution targets, we quantify reconstruction performance versus wavelength, scattering strength, and sample-sensor distance. NIR-LDHM maintains resolvable features through scattering layers up to ~1.4 mm, whereas visible regime fails to resolve features below ~350 um. Importantly, despite a detector quantum efficiency of only 0.19% at 1100 nm, robust reconstructions are obtained under low-photon-budget conditions. We further identify advantageous mechanism by which increasing the sample-sensor distance from ~3 to 12 mm improves lateral resolution by twofold under strong scattering. Finally, we demonstrate wide-field, label-free amplitude-phase imaging of uncleared mouse tissues, resolving internal structure in brain and liver slices up to ~250 um and ~60 um, respectively. By extending lensless complex-field microscopy into strongly scattering regimes with minimal hardware changes, this work has relevance to computational imaging through complex media and biophotonics.

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arXiv2025

Low-dose Chemically Specific Bioimaging via Deep-UV Lensless Holographic Microscopy on a Standard Camera

Deep-ultraviolet (DUV) microscopy can provide label-free biochemical contrast by exploiting the intrinsic absorption of nucleic acids, proteins and lipids, offering chemically specific morphological information that complements structural optical thickness contrast from phase-sensitive imaging. However, existing DUV microscopes typically rely on specialized optics and DUV-sensitive cameras, which restrict field of view, increase system complexity and cost, and often require high illumination doses that risk photodamage. Here, we report a low-dose deep-UV lensless holographic microscopy platform that uses standard board-level CMOS sensors designed for visible light, eliminating all imaging optics and dedicated DUV detectors. Our system achieves large field-of-view (up to 116 mm2) DUV imaging with low illumination and label-free phase and chemically specific amplitude contrast. A specialized defocus/wavelength diverse pixel super-resolution reconstruction with total-variation regularization and robust autofocusing halves the effective sensor pixel pitch and yields down to 870 nm lateral resolution. We demonstrate chemically specific, label-free bioimaging on challenging specimens, including Saccharomyces cerevisiae, extracellular vesicles and unstained mouse liver tissue. In liver sections, imaging at {\lambda} = 330 nm reveals lipid- and retinoid-rich accumulations that co-localize with Oil Red O staining, enabling label-free identification of hepatic stellate (Ito) cells. This combination of low-dose operation, chemically specific contrast and standard CMOS hardware establishes DUV lensless holographic microscopy as a practical and scalable route to high-content submicron-resolution whole-slide preparation-free bioimaging without exogenous labels.

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arXiv2025

Gigavoxel-Scale Multiple-Scattering-Aware Lensless Holotomography

Holotomography (HT) has revolutionized quantitative label-free 3D imaging, yet conventional lens-based implementations are fundamentally constrained in field-of-view (FOV) and imaging depth, limiting their utility for critical high-throughput applications in material and life sciences. Lensless HT (LHT) offers a promising alternative for large-volume examination, however existing approaches fail to accurately reconstruct highly scattering samples over extended depths, which remains a critical challenge in optical imaging field. Here, we introduce a gigavoxel-scale, multiple-scattering-aware LHT with a large FOV (surpassing 0.6 cm2), millimeter-scale axial range and pixel level (~2.4 micron) resolution. Our approach leverages a multi-wavelength, oblique-illumination hologram reconstruction and a robust, automatic illumination angle calibration, which are necessary for precise large-volume 3D holographic reconstruction. Moreover, we propose optimization-driven multi-slice tomographic framework to accurately capture multiple-scattering effects outperforming first order Born/Rytov-based inversions. To rigorously validate our method, we reconstruct bespoke multi-layer two-photon polymerized test structure over a 1.7 mm imaging depth and 25 mm2 FOV, yielding an unprecedented 3D space-bandwidth product exceeding a gigavoxel level. Furthermore, we demonstrate for the first time on-chip label-free imaging of entire 500-micron-thick tissue slice of optically-cleared mouse brain. With the proposed method, we aim to unlock powerful new capabilities for large-scale, quantitative, label-free 3D imaging across biomedicine, neuroscience, material sciences and beyond.

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