Beating the abbe diffraction limit in confocal microscopy via nonclassical photon statistics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 14, 2014, Pages

  Gatto Monticone, D ^a,b,c   Katamadze, K ^d,e   Traina, P ^f   Moreva, E ^d,f   Forneris, J ^a,b,c   Ruo Berchera, I ^f   Olivero, P ^a,b,c   Degiovanni, I P ^f   Brida, G ^f   Genovese, M ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c M V Lomonosov Moscow State University ^*  (Italy)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^f ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RICERCA METROLOGICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; COLOR CENTERS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; PHOTONS;

ABBE DIFFRACTION; AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ENHANCED RESOLUTIONS; NITROGEN VACANCIES; NONCLASSICAL PHOTON STATISTICS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SIGNALS; SUPER RESOLUTION;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84908042390     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.143602     Document Type: Article

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