ERC Starting Grant · 2017
Microscopy - Making optimal use of photons and electrons
The sensitivity of modern microscopy is limited by shot-noise. It limits the accuracy of measurements of specimen properties as well as the spatial resolution of electron microscopes when imaging sensitive specimens, such as proteins or DNA. But the shot-noise limit is not a fundamental limit. A technologically feasible and optimal approach to overcoming the shot-noise limit is to have each probe particle interact with the specimen multiple times. We recently introduced this concept to microscopy using self-imaging cavities. Within this project, I want to demonstrate post-selection free sub-shot noise microscopy with both photons and electrons. Optically this will be possible by introducing…
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