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I love The Lukosz work, i think that One Could also considering works by Toraldo di Francia on super resolution starting from this fundamental reading on The resolution definition:
Toraldo di Francia (1955) Resolving power and information. JOSA 47(7), 497-501.
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> Just a couple of examples, they are probably even earlier papers … the idea of a resolution 'limit' for self luminous objects was dismissed in the 1950's -if not earlier. Here's a few papers that may lead to more:
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> Exchanging time for spatial information to increase resolution:
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> LUKOSZ W. Optical systems with resolving powers exceeding the classical limit. II. JOSA. Optical Society of America; 1967;57(7):932–9.
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> General discussion about super resolution
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> McCutchen CW. Superresolution in microscopy and the Abbe resolution limit. JOSA. Optical Society of America; 1967;57(10):1190–0.
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> Using a grating to increase resolution;
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> BACHL A, LUKOSZ W. Experiments on Superresolution Imaging of a Reduced Object Field. J Opt Soc Am. 1967;57(2):163–&.
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> Resolution enhancement by non-linear optical effects:
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> Ehrlich DJ, Tsao JY. Nonreciprocal laser-microchemical processing: Spatial resolution limits and demonstration of 0.2-μm linewidths. Appl. Phys. Lett. 1984;44(2):267.
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> Cheers
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> On 23/08/2012, at 7:59 AM, Peng Xi <
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>> Dear Mark,
>> I am not sure what you mean by "well before". Super-resolution is a
>> term that usually refers to techniques that provides theoretically
>> 'infinitely small' resolution, or down to single molecule size. That's why
>> although confocal is already better (1.4x better) in resolution, it is
>> generally not treated as super-resolution. And so to multiphoton microscopy.
>> If you have a better candidate on inventing super-resolution, please let
>> me and everybody know. I am sure that people are keen to know this.
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>> Sincerely,
>> Peng Xi
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>> Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
>> Peking University, Beijing, China
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>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Mark Cannell
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>>> Hmm, A very myopic blog on a subject with a rich past. It was appreciated
>>> that the Abbe 'limit' was not a limit well before Stephan Hell's work.
>>> Suggest you might like to research the subject matter a bit deeper?
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>>> Cheers
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>>> PS I hope others don't start advertising their 'blogs' on this list, we
>>> ban commercial 'blogs', perhaps this should be extend?
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>>> On 23/08/2012, at 1:32 AM, Peng Xi <
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>>>> Dear List,
>>>> I am blogging on optical nanoscopy, in a very casual mode.
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http://xipeng.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/how-optical-super-resolution-is-achieved-1/>>>> It is originally written in Chinese, after I gave a related plenary
>>>> talk in May 2012. Last talk, in the noon time. And the audiences were
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>>>> all sorts of disciplines, from fresh graduate students to renowned
>>>> professors. Therefore, I decided to make the talk interesting, and easy
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>>>> follow by everyone. It turns out to be very successful -- much better
>>> than
>>>> equations and diagrams. So, I decide to broadcast it by blogging. :)
>>>> Hope you like it.
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>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Peng Xi
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>>>> Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
>>>> Peking University, Beijing, China
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