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Diffraction-limited Resolution

Diffraction-Limited Resolution is the fundamental physical constraint on the finest resolvable detail in an imaging system, defined by the diffraction of light waves, under which two point sources are considered just distinguishable when the central maximum of one source's diffraction pattern coincides with the first minimum of the other's Airy pattern.

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Breaking the diffraction resolution limit by stimulated emission: stimulated-emission-depletion fluorescence microscopy

Stefan W. Hell, Jan Wichmann · Optics Letters · 1994 · 6.1K citations

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How good are my data and what is the resolution?

Philip R. Evans, Garib N. Murshudov · Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography · 2013 · 5K citations · Full text

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Sub-Diffraction-Limited Optical Imaging with a Silver Superlens

Nicholas X. Fang, Hyesog Lee, Cheng Sun et al. · Science · 2005 · 4K citations

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Metalenses at visible wavelengths: Diffraction-limited focusing and subwavelength resolution imaging

Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad, Wei Ting Chen, Robert C. Devlin et al. · Science · 2016 · 3.3K citations · Full text

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Far-Field Optical Hyperlens Magnifying Sub-Diffraction-Limited Objects

Zhaowei Liu, Hyesog Lee, Yi Xiong et al. · Science · 2007 · 2.2K citations

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  1. SW
    Stefan W. Hell

    Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany

    22 publications · 11.9K citations

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    Xiang Zhang

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    14 publications · 8.4K citations

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  3. TR
    Thomas Rimmelé

    Hospices Civils de Lyon, France

    14 publications · 596 citations

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    Zhaowei Liu

    University of California San Diego, United States

    11 publications · 4.3K citations

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  5. PT
    Peter Tuthill

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    8 publications · 350 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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    249 publications

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  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

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    128 publications

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  3. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    23 h-index

    98 publications

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  4. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    23 h-index

    142 publications

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  5. Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry

    Göttingen, Germany

    19 h-index

    67 publications

    17.9K citations

  6. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    Berkeley, United States

    18 h-index

    98 publications

    8.4K citations

  7. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

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    97 publications

    4.5K citations

  8. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

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    44 publications

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  1. Optics Express

    109 publications · 6K citations

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  2. Optics Letters

    77 publications · 12.1K citations

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  3. Applied Optics

    70 publications · 5.2K citations

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  5. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 36 publications · 3K citations

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