In such an approach the resolution of the near-field optical microscope is found to depend only upon the system damping and the resonance distance.doi:10.1007/978-94-011-1978-8_25Ole KellerSergei I. BozhevolnyiM. XiaoSpringer Netherlands...
Airy discs, Abbe’s diffraction limit, the Rayleigh Criterion, and the point spread function (PSF) In microscopy, the term “resolution” is used to describe the ability of a microscope to distinguish details of a specimen or sample. In other words, the minimum distance between 2 disti...
We have designed a fully automated optical microscope running at high-speed and achieving a very high spatial resolution. In order to overcome the resolution limit of optical microscopes, it exploits the localized surface plasmon resonance phenomenon. The customized setup using a polarization analyzer,...
aMicroscope objectives (MOs) must create a high-quality image, corresponding to the diffraction limit of resolution: , where λ is the wavelength of the light, and A is the numerical aperture of the MO. Because of the existing theory of image formation in a microscope and the availability of...
3.2.1Resolution limit in failure analysis Shrinking device geometries in integrated circuits are made possible by improvingoptical lithography, which is driven mainly by decreasing the wavelength of the exposure source. However, optical probing relies on the transmission of light through thesilicon substra...
Breaking the resolution-bandwidth limit of chip-scale spectrometry by harnessing a dispersion-engineered photonic molecule Hongnan Xu, Yue Qin, Gaolei Hu & Hon Ki Tsang Light: Science & Applications volume 12, Article number: 64 (2023) Cite this article 9291 Accesses 20 Altmetric Metrics detail...
Super-resolution microscopy is an optical imaging technology that overcomes the diffraction limit of light and allows the visualization of subcellular structures and dynamics in greater detail than can be achieved with conventional optical microscopy. A resolution of 30 nm is possible usingSTED(stimulated...
A method and apparatus for visualizing sub-micron size particles employs a polarizing microscope wherein a focused be of polarized light (200) is projected onto a target (204), and a portion of the illuminating light is blocked from reaching the target, whereby to produce a shadow region, and...
Lateral resolution that exceeds the classical diffraction limit by a factor of two is achieved by using spatially structured illumination in a wide-field fluorescence microscope. The sample is illuminated with a series of excitation light patterns, which cause normally inaccessible high-resolution informat...
The limits of conventional light microscopy (“Abbe-Limit“) depend critically on the numerical aperture (NA) of the objective lens. Imaging at large working distances or a large field-of-view typically requires low NA objectives, thereby reducing the op