Quantum limits on optical resolution

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 3789-3792

  Kolobov, Mikhail I ^a,b   Fabre, Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

QUANTUM LIMITS; SHANNON NUMBER; SPACE BANDWIDTH PRODUCT; SPATIAL FREQUENCY BAND; SUPERRESOLUTION TECHNIQUES;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0034294393     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3789     Document Type: Article

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