Resolution enhancement in a scanning optical microscope using array detection

Abstract

An optical microscope is an imaging tool that provides images of a specimen with finer details relative to the image provided by an unaided eye Owing to the far field imaging capability the optical microscopes have become very important in diverse application areas They are in particular useful for imaging of living biological samples which is not possible with other high resolution microscopes such as an electron microscope Based on the illumination mechanism the optical microscopes are divi...