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Rayleigh Criterion

The Rayleigh Criterion is a resolution limit in wave optics that defines the minimum angular separation at which two point sources are distinguishable as separate entities when the principal maximum of one source's diffraction pattern coincides with the first minimum of the other's.

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Rayleigh's Criterion

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Wide-field subdiffraction imaging by accumulated binding of diffusing probes

Alexey Sharonov, Robin M. Hochstrasser · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Theory of Nanometric Optical Tweezers

Lukáš Novotný, Randy X. Bian, Xiaohui Xie · Physical Review Letters · 1997 · 1K citations

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Hyper-Rayleigh scattering in solution

Koen Clays, André Persoons · Physical Review Letters · 1991 · 995 citations

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Turbulent convection at very high Rayleigh numbers

Joseph Niemela, L. Skrbek, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan et al. · Nature · 2000 · 689 citations

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Vortex-driven acoustically coupled combustion instabilities

Thierry Poinsot, Arnaud Trouvé, Denis P. Veynante et al. · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1987 · 560 citations

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  1. GG
    G. Gouesbet

    Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Rouen Normandie, France

    4 publications · 72 citations

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  2. DM
    D. Maystre

    Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, France

    4 publications · 128 citations

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  3. PV
    P.M. van den Berg

    Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

    4 publications · 255 citations

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  4. JR
    Joseph Rosen

    Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

    4 publications · 477 citations

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  5. JM
    J. M. Vigoureux

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    4 publications · 196 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    22 h-index

    79 publications

    7K citations

  2. Delft University of Technology

    Delft, The Netherlands

    9 h-index

    17 publications

    781 citations

  3. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    9 h-index

    25 publications

    2.4K citations

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    9 h-index

    21 publications

    764 citations

  5. National University of Singapore

    Singapore, Singapore

    7 h-index

    17 publications

    2.1K citations

  6. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    7 h-index

    17 publications

    283 citations

  7. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    7 h-index

    16 publications

    620 citations

  8. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    556 citations

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  1. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    21 publications · 2.3K citations

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  2. Optics Express

    19 publications · 1.3K citations

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  4. Journal of the Optical Society of America

    JOSA · 18 publications · 1.4K citations

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  5. Applied Optics

    15 publications · 622 citations

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