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Coherent microscopy at resolution beyond diffraction limit using post-experimental data extrapolation

Optics 2013-11-22 v2

Abstract

Conventional microscopic records represent intensity distributions whereby local sample information is mapped onto local information at the detector. In coherent microscopy, the superposition principle of waves holds; field amplitudes are added, not intensities. This non-local representation is spread out in space and interference information combined with wave continuity allows extrapolation beyond the actual detected data. Established resolution criteria are thus circumvented and hidden object details can retrospectively be recovered from just a fraction of an interference pattern.

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@article{arxiv.1304.2507,
  title  = {Coherent microscopy at resolution beyond diffraction limit using post-experimental data extrapolation},
  author = {Tatiana Latychevskaia and Hans-Werner Fink},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.2507},
  year   = {2013}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures

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