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  2. Ernst Abbe - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Karl Abbe HonFRMS (23 January 1840 – 14 January 1905) was a German businessman, ... [The Theory of Image Formation in the Microscope] (in German ...

  3. Abbe sine condition - Wikipedia

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    When the imaging system obeys the Abbe sine condition, the ratio of the sines of these angles equal the (lateral absolute) magnification of the system. In optics , the Abbe sine condition is a condition that must be fulfilled by a lens or other optical system in order for it to produce sharp images of off-axis as well as on-axis objects.

  4. Diffraction-limited system - Wikipedia

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    Memorial in Jena, Germany to Ernst Karl Abbe, who approximated the diffraction limit of a microscope as = ⁡, where d is the resolvable feature size, λ is the wavelength of light, n is the index of refraction of the medium being imaged in, and θ (depicted as α in the inscription) is the half-angle subtended by the optical objective lens (representing the numerical aperture).

  5. Optical aberration - Wikipedia

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    The images of the Gauss theory being of the third order, the next problem is to obtain an image of 5th order, or to make the coefficients of the powers of 3rd degree zero. This necessitates the satisfying of five equations; in other words, there are five alterations of the 3rd order, the vanishing of which produces an image of the 5th order.

  6. Image formation - Wikipedia

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    The ratio of the height of the image to the height of the object is the magnification. The spatial extent of the image surface and the focal length of the lens determines the field of view of the lens. Image formation of mirror these have a center of curvature and its focal length of the mirror is half of the center of curvature.

  7. Near-field scanning optical microscope - Wikipedia

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    According to Abbe's theory of image formation, developed in 1873, the resolving capability of an optical component is ultimately limited by the spreading out of each image point due to diffraction. Unless the aperture of the optical component is large enough to collect all the diffracted light, the finer aspects of the image will not correspond ...

  8. Point spread function - Wikipedia

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    The degree of spreading (blurring) in the image of a point object for an imaging system is a measure of the quality of the imaging system. In non-coherent imaging systems, such as fluorescent microscopes, telescopes or optical microscopes, the image formation process is linear in the image intensity and described by a linear system theory. This ...

  9. Prism (optics) - Wikipedia

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    Even number of reflections, image projects upright (without change in handedness; may or may not be rotated) Porro prism projects image backwards and displaced; Porro–Abbe prism projects image forward, rotated by 180° and displaced; Perger prism a development based on the Porro–Abbe prism, projects image forward, rotated by 180° and displaced