Meta-instrument: an opto-mechanical platform for imaging near-field optical instruments
conference paper
In 1947, Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 to break the long upheld belief of the Mach barrier: no one could fly faster than the speed of sound. Physicist today are working to break another such barrier: the diffraction limit. In 1873, Ernst Abbe postulated that the fundamental limit of optical microscopy was limited by the wavelength and the numerical aperture of the optics to approximately half the wavelength. In the visual spectrum, this equates to a resolution limit of approximately 100 nm.
TNO Identifier
1019185
Source title
13th International Workshop on Nanomechanical Sensing, NMC 2016, Delft, The Netherlands
Collation
2 p.
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