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The 21 pages that link to Diffraction limit, each with the reason it gives.

• Adaptive opticsRelated: Successful correction reveals resolution otherwise hidden by atmospheric blur.

• Angular resolutionRelated: It sets the fundamental resolution bound for an ideal aperture.

• Electron microscopeRelated: It provides a baseline for comparing electron and light microscopy.

• Spatial resolutionRelated: It bounds how closely an optical system can separate point-like features.

• MicroscopyRelated: It explains why ordinary light microscopy cannot separate arbitrarily close features.

• Reflecting telescopeRelated: Mirror diameter sets the ideal resolution, even when the optics are perfect.

• Space telescopeRelated: A telescope’s aperture sets its finest possible detail even above the atmosphere.

• Astronomical seeingCompared with: Seeing often dominates ground-based images, but diffraction sets the limit when atmospheric blur is corrected.

• MicroscopeRelated: It limits the detail conventional light microscopes can distinguish.

• Rayleigh criterionRelated: The criterion gives a conventional angular limit set by diffraction.

• Optical resolutionRelated: It sets the fundamental resolution limit for an ideal optical system.

• Optical aberrationCompared with: It limits image sharpness even in an aberration-free optical system.

• Super-resolution microscopyNarrower topic: It is the conventional resolution benchmark that super-resolution methods exceed.

• Optical telescopeRelated: Even perfect telescope optics cannot resolve detail finer than their diffraction limit.

• Aperture (optics)Related: A smaller aperture increases diffraction and can reduce resolving power.

• Primary mirrorRelated: Even a perfectly figured primary mirror cannot resolve detail beyond the aperture’s diffraction limit.

• Astronomical instrumentationRelated: Diffraction limits how finely a telescope can resolve sources even with perfect optics.

• William E. MoernerCompared with: Super-resolution microscopy overcomes the conventional limit that once blurred nearby fluorescent features together.

• Stefan HellRelated: Hell’s methods overcome this limit by restricting fluorescence emission below its usual scale.

• High resolutionRelated: It constrains optical resolution even when image sampling is very dense.

• John William StruttRelated: The Rayleigh criterion estimates when this limit prevents two sources from being distinguished.