Breaking the diffraction limit in molecular imaging by structured illumination mid-infrared photothermal microscopy

Pengcheng Fu; Bo Chen; Yongqing Zhang; Liangyi Chen; Hyeon Jeong Lee; Delong Zhang

doi:10.1117/1.AP.7.3.036003

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