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The Fall of Rayleigh’s Curse

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JUSTINE MURPHY, SENIOR EDITOR, [email protected]

The Hope Diamond; Egypt’s infamous Tutankhamun; Turáni átok in Hungary — all are associated with purported curses that continue to plague believers around the world. The optics world has a curse of its own, of sorts — one that has recently been disproven thanks to the work of a team of international scientists. Optical resolution is the ability of an imaging system to distinguish between closely spaced objects. Here are two points separated by Rayleigh’s limit, as demonstrated in the research. Courtesy of Martin Paúr/Palacký...Read full article

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    Published: November 2016
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