Professor Edward Roy Pike , Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, King's College, London
4 PM, Tuesday, December 12, 1995
Room 10, Callaway Hall
The inversion of first-kind Fredholm problems in optical imaging will be discussed with particular reference to scanning microscopy. It will be shown that the correct resolution limit in such instruments is twice the classical Rayleigh limit and that this improvement (sometimes called superresolution) can be achieved in practice using a novel optical processing technique. If time permits some remarks may also be made on the subjects of blind deconvolution and the correction of spatially varying blur.