According to the widely accepted Rayleigh criterion, in order to resolve two distant point sources, their angular separation must be larger than 1.22 (the wavelength of light divided by the ...

The resolution of an optical system (like a telescope or a camera) is limited by the so-called Rayleigh criterion. An international team has broken this limit, showing that it is not a fundamental ...

Two become one: various diffraction patterns showing Rayleigh's criterion. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Spencer Blevin) Scientists have long believed that diffraction limits the minimum distance that ...

Suspended above a microstrip line and paired with two movable Rayleigh scatterers ... for detecting particles as small as 0.001 times the wavelength of light and opening new possibilities for ...

Stefan Kim of SciShow explains why the sky appears blue to human eyes due to Rayleigh Scattering, the scattering of light by ...