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Scanning holographic microscopy with transverse resolution exceeding the Rayleigh limit and extended depth of focus

Guy Indebetouw1, Alouahab El Maghnouji, Richard Foster

  • 1Physics Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0435, USA. gindebet@vt.edu

Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, Image Science, and Vision
|May 19, 2005
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