In 1873, the German physicist Ernst Abbe realized that the resolution of optical imaging instruments, including telescopes and microscopes, is fundamentally limited by the diffraction of light.

Fibres with arrays of small holes could be used as a means of patterning light on a subwavelength scale. The application of such future fibres is only limited by the imagination.

What is the Diffraction Limit? The diffraction limit is a fundamental barrier in optical microscopy that sets the minimum size of features that can be resolved using conventional light microscopes. It ...

Nanoscopy is a field of microscopy that focuses on imaging and studying structures and processes at the nanoscale, typically below the diffraction limit of light. It encompasses various techniques ...

Overcoming the resolution limit in a light microscope of around half a wavelength of light (about 250 nanometers) is one of ...

A recent review in Engineering explores multi-photon 3D nanoprinting. This technology, with its unique 3D processing and ...

We present the photometry and positions for 78 objects (at least 40 galaxies) near five bright stars, appropriate for diffraction‐limited studies with the Keck and other AO systems on large ...

Over the last two decades, there have been significant progress in achieving optical resolution below the diffraction limit of around 250 nm, which most famously culminated ... SR biological imaging ...

The ingenuity and creativity of human researchers have led to the discovery of super-resolution (SR) methods, which overcome the classical diffraction limit of light at about 250 nm and enable one ...