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Everything about Diffraction-limited system
Optical system with resolution performance at the instrument's theoretical limit
In optics, any optical instrument or system—a microscope, telescope, or camera—has a principal limit to its resolution due to the physics of diffraction. An optical instrument is said to be diffraction-limited if it has reached this limit of resolution performance. Other factors may affect an optical system's performance, such as lens imperfections or aberrations, but these are caused by errors in the manufacture or calculation of a lens, whereas the diffraction limit is the maximum resolution possible for a theoretically perfect, or ideal, optical system. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Diffraction-limited systemA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A 10× continuously zoomable metalens system with super‐wide field of view and near‐diffraction–limited resolutionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Introduction to Fourier opticsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Object Restoration in a Diffraction-Limited Imaging System*Cited 93 times
- Go sideways: Angular resolutionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: MicroscopyA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Object Restoration in a Diffraction-Limited Imaging System*
Keck Diffraction‐limited Imaging of the Young Quadruple Star System HD 98800
Diffraction-Limited High-Radiance Nd-Glass Laser System
A simple tunable KrF laser system with narrow bandwidth and diffraction-limited divergence
Polychromatic Optical Image. Diffraction Limited System and Influence of the Longitudinal Chromatic Aberration
Limited-angle hybrid optical diffraction tomography system with total-variation-minimization-based reconstruction
Single-frequency MOPA system with near-diffraction-limited beam quality
Optical transfer function of a diffraction-limited system for polychromatic illumination
🆕 Influential since 2022
A 10× continuously zoomable metalens system with super‐wide field of view and near‐diffraction–limited resolution
Multiple Incoherent Deconvolutions for Improving the Image Resolution of Diffraction‐Limited Imaging Systems
Extended depth of field of a diffraction limited imaging system using a spatial light modulator based intensity compensated polarization coded aperture
Diode-pumped Tm:YLF MOPA system delivering 713 mJ pulse energy with near-diffraction-limited beam quality
Quantum thermometry in diffraction-limited systems
📚 Books worth reading
Introduction to Fourier opticsJoseph W. Goodman · 1968- 📕Optical designMax J. Riedl · 2009
Advances in imaging and electron physicsP. W. Hawkes · 2006
Optical Near FieldsMotoichi Ohtsu · 2004
The Nature of ScienceJame Trefil · 2003
The EnzymesPaul D. Boyer · 1970
Optical design · 2009- 📕Chipless RFID sensorsNemai Chandra Karmakar · 2016
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