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In 1873, the German physicist Ernst Abbe realized that the resolution of optical imaging instruments is fundamentally limited by the diffraction of light.
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Wei, J. (2015). General Methods for Obtaining Nanoscale Light Spot. In: Nonlinear Super-Resolution Nano-Optics and Applications. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 191. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44488-7_1
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