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What Do we Really See? Resolution in Near-Field Optical Microscopy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 July 2020
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Six years ago there was a symposium held at the 1991 EMS A meeting to discuss the issue of “Resolution in the Microscope”.1 In this paper, we will look at resolution in near-field imaging, a blossoming field, and see whether any of our concepts have changed.
It has been only within the last decade that the concept of super-resolution microscopy in the near field has been vigorously pursued and experimentally demonstrated. (For reviews on the subject, the reader is referred to the proceedings of the second and third international conferences on near field optics.) However, as in most areas of microscopy, the idea is not new, but rather rediscovered after decades of dormancy.
The idea of optical resolution unhindered by far-field diffraction limitations was conceived more than a half-century ago by E.H. Synge4 in a paper entitled “A Suggested Method for Extending Microscopy Resolution into the Ultra-Microscope Regime”.
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- The Limits of Image Resolution: Seeing is Believing
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- Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 3 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '97, Microscopy Society of America 55th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 31st Annual Meeting, Histochemical Society 48th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, August 10-14, 1997 , August 1997 , pp. 1183 - 1184
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- Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1997