title: Coherent super-resolution microscopy via laterally structured illumination.
abstract: Theory describing a super-resolution microscopy experiment using temporally and spatially coherent structured illumination was developed, and used to derive a method for processing experimental data. Numerical simulations were performed to verify that the method can, in principle, produce super-resolved images that are exactly equivalent to an image processed by a system with a much larger aperture (that is, the correct weighting between different regions of the image spectrum is maintained). The process was then demonstrated experimentally, showing a factor of two improvement in resolution over a diffraction-limited, coherently illuminated, microscope.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Biophotonics and Laser Science, University of Queensland, St. Lucia 4072, Australia. littleton@physics.uq.edu.au
authors.forename: Brad
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Littleton
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Longstaff
authors.forename: Vassilios
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sarafis
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Munroe
authors.forename: Norman
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Heckenberg
authors.forename: Halina
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rubinsztein-Dunlop