Solid-immersion imaging interferometric nanoscopy to the limits of available frequency space

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 772-781

  Kuznetsova, Yuliya ^a   Neumann, Alexander ^a   Brueck, S R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CLOSE PROXIMITY; FIELD OF VIEWS; FREQUENCY SPACES; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 84861138833     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.29.000772     Document Type: Article

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