Imaging and writing at the nanoscale with focused visible light through saturable optical transitions

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

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

Natural Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Optics +13

Fluorescence microscopy with diffraction resolution barrier broken by stimulated emission

Thomas A. Klar, Stefan Jakobs, Marcus Dyba et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2000 · 1.9K citations

Natural Sciences, Biophysics, Physics +13

A digital fluorescent molecular photoswitch

Masahiro Irie, Tuyoshi Fukaminato, Takatoshi Sasaki et al. · Nature · 2002 · 1.2K citations

Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +12

Saturated patterned excitation microscopy—a concept for optical resolution improvement

Rainer Heintzmann, Thomas M. Jovin, Christoph Cremer · Journal of the Optical Society of America A · 2002 · 570 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics +17

Ground-state-depletion fluorscence microscopy: A concept for breaking the diffraction resolution limit

Stefan W. Hell, M. Kroug · Applied Physics B · 1995 · 536 citations

Natural Sciences, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +11