Construction of a High-Resolution (10 nanometer) Optical Microscope Using the LAMDA Effect

利用最近发现的一种效应(激光放大运动检测和分析，LAMDA)，该项目旨在开发一种分辨率为10 nm的远场光学显微镜。这种分辨率是可见光波长的五分之一，大约是以前光学显微镜获得的分辨率的二十分之一，这将允许对细节进行成像，这是以前光学显微镜从未实现的。LAMDA显微镜将能够实时直接观察到诸如DNA-蛋白质复合体、发育中的细胞生长因子的出现、有丝分裂的结构细节以及生物膜中的通道形成蛋白等生物实体。进一步的应用将涵盖半导体和磁性数据存储行业的所有科学、工程、过程控制，事实上，无论在哪里，前所未有的高分辨率光学显微镜都是有价值的。

Using a recently discovered effect (Laser Amplified Motion Detection and Analysis, LAMDA), this project is to develop a far- field optical microscope with a resolution of 10nm. This resolution, one-fiftieth of the wavelength of visible light and about one-twentieth of the resolution obtained by previous optical microscopes, would permit the imaging of detail never before realized with an optical microscope. The LAMDA microscope would be capable of making directly observable, in real time, such biological entities as DNA-protein complexes, the emergence of cell-growth factors in development, the structural details underlying mitosis, and of channel-forming proteins in biological membranes. Further applications would encompass all of the sciences, engineering, process control in the semiconductor and magnetic data storage industries, in fact wherever light microscopy of unprecedented high resolution can be of value.