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Figure 1: The Point Spread Function (PSF). Two PSFs are shown, one for high numerical aperture (NA = 1.3 in grey) and one for NA = 0.3 (slightly transparent shades). As can be seen the low NA PSF is wide and has well-defined positions of zero intensity, leading to the definition of the Rayleigh limit. For this PSF also the definition of full width measured at half the maximum (FWHM) is shown. The high NA PSF (uniformly grey peak in the middle) is much finer, but does not have the rings of zero intensity. The colour version of this figure can be found in www.bfgp.oxfordjournals.org
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