Note on the classification of super-resolution in far-field microscopy and information theory

2016/06/16 by Oliver Passon, Johannes Grebe-Ellis · 1 voice
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1364/josaa.33.000b31

published as J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 33(7) B31-B35 (2016)

Abstract

In recent years several far-field microscopy techniques have been developed which manage to overcome the diffraction limit of resolution. A unifying classification scheme for them is clearly desirable. We argue that existing schemes based on the information capacity of the optical system can not easily be extended to cover e.g., STED microscopy or techniques based on single molecule imaging. We suggest a classification based on a reconstruction of the Abbe limit.

Discussions

• So deconvolution can indeed get under the diffraction limit https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05081 [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]

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