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Experimental Methods and Techiques
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Written by xScience.Info
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Wednesday, 06 September 2006 |
 Laser optical antennas represent a relatively new approach to
getting around the old diffraction limit characterizing conventional
optics, namely the inability of a lens to focus light for imaging
purposes to any better than about half the wavelength of the light
being used.
Like a rooftop antenna which grabs meter-sized radio
waves and turns them (courtesy of a tuned circuit) into signals far
smaller in physical extent, so the optical antenna converts visible
light into an illuminating beam of much higher resolving power. For
example, 800-nanometer light can produce images with a spatial resolution
of no better than about 400 nanometer.
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The 8000 member Biophysical Society is pleased to announce the
recipients of its 2007 Society awards. The 12 recipients will receive
their awards at the Biophysical Society's 51st Annual Meeting on Monday
March 5, 2007, at the Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
