Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and his student Nagendra Nath published a series of papers in 1936 on the diffraction of light by a liquid in the field of a high frequency sound wave. This was ...

Understanding optical resolution is key in microscopy, highlighting the diffraction limit and innovations in super-resolution ...

It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next ...