Quantum interference fringes beating the diffraction limit

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 14244-14250

  Kawabe, Yoshio ^a   Fujiwara, Hideki ^a   Okamoto, Ryo ^a   Sasaki, Keiji ^a   Takeuchi, Shigeki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

QUANTUM INTERFERENCE FRINGES;

LIGHT INTERFERENCE;

EID: 35348975574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014244     Document Type: Article

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