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Optics

Properties of light

Wave particle duality:

Light is a wave

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Absorption and Emission

Beer's law

Refraction

Ray tracing

 

Resolution

Resolution: The ability to separate two objects

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A definition of Numerical Aperture

 

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Look at a simple optical system:

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Mathematical prediction of the Point Spread Function (PSF)

 

 

Notes from:

http://web.mit.edu/2.710/Fall06/2.710-wk12-b-sl.pdf

https://links.uwaterloo.ca/amath353docs/set11.pdf

https://www.thefouriertransform.com/pairs/box.php

Super Resolution Techniques