limited only by diffraction and not by aberrations or other imperfections in the construction. For microscopic instruments, the diffraction-limited spatial...

aperture can make, limited by the diffraction of light. The Airy disk is of importance in physics, optics, and astronomy. The diffraction pattern resulting...

the contrast at spatial frequencies near the diffraction limit of 500 cycles/mm is diffraction-limited. Close observation of the image in panel (f) shows...

system is limited by diffraction to the ratio of the wavelength of the waves to the aperture width. For this reason, high resolution imaging systems such...

coined the word diffraction and was the first to record accurate observations of the phenomenon in 1660. In classical physics, the diffraction phenomenon is...

overview of electron diffraction and electron diffraction patterns, collective referred to by the generic name electron diffraction. This includes aspects...

Powder diffraction is a scientific technique using X-ray, neutron, or electron diffraction on powder or microcrystalline samples for structural characterization...

buffers, and other interferences. Because a Raman microscope is a diffraction-limited system, its spatial resolution depends on the wavelength of light, the...

refract the light or change focal length. Instead, they create a diffraction limited system, which has an increased depth of field, similar to using a small...

substantial quantities. Aspheric lens Achromatic lens Abbe number Diffraction-limited system Material dispersion coefficient Gerald F. Marshall (19 July 1991)...

The resolution of a telescope is limited by the size of the main mirror, due to the effects of Fraunhofer diffraction. This results in images of distant...

discussion of the Rayleigh criterion) Diffraction-limited system Huygens–Fresnel principle#Single slit diffraction Fabrication and testing of optical components...

is not usually cited as a well-fixed number as with an optical diffraction-limited system. Repeatability and control at the practical resolution limit often...

called diffraction. Two types of diffraction are distinguished, depending upon the separation between the source and the screen: Fraunhofer diffraction or...

provided by geometric optics. In reality, image formation is, at best diffraction-limited, and point-like images are not possible due to the wave nature of...

enhance (increase) the resolution of an imaging system. In optical SR the diffraction limit of systems is transcended, while in geometrical SR the resolution...

sub-micrometer lateral spatial resolution. Because a Raman microscope is a diffraction-limited system, its spatial resolution depends on the wavelength of light and...

Kirchhoff's diffraction formula (also called Fresnel–Kirchhoff diffraction formula) approximates light intensity and phase in optical diffraction: light fields...

to obtain a diffraction pattern that provides information of the structure of the material. The technique is similar to X-ray diffraction but due to their...

radar is limited by lack of available frequencies (many are heavily used by other systems), by lack of accuracy of the diffraction-limited systems given...

information within each diffraction pattern can be analysed in more detail. For texture and orientation measurements, the diffraction patterns are binned...

in X-ray related technologies, including X-ray crystallography, X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray reflectivity, X-ray fluorescence (XRF), automation, cryogenics...

strength of current to the intermediate lens, the diffraction pattern is projected on a screen. Diffraction is a very powerful tool for doing a cell reconstruction...

Precession electron diffraction (PED) is a specialized method to collect electron diffraction patterns in a transmission electron microscope (TEM). By...

The Scherrer equation, in X-ray diffraction and crystallography, is a formula that relates the size of sub-micrometre crystallites in a solid to the broadening...

decreasing. (In other words, the light of a non-zero diffraction order propagates from the diffraction grating at a larger angle with respect to the grating...

through an aperture will experience diffraction and the best images that can be created (as described in diffraction-limited optics) appear as a central spot...

lens, is a lens which uses metamaterials to go beyond the diffraction limit. The diffraction limit is a feature of conventional lenses and microscopes...

hybrid lucky imaging and adaptive optics (AO) system. The new camera gave the first diffraction-limited resolutions on 5 m-class telescopes in visible...

diffraction", scanning electron nano diffraction, nanobeam electron diffraction, or pixelated STEM. The use of diffraction patterns as a function of position...