For millennia, the smallest thing humans could see was about as wide as a human hair. When the microscope was invented around 1590, suddenly we saw a new world of living things in our water, in our ...

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When a medium is irradiated with light beams of two different frequencies, it radiates another light field with the sum frequency. In an optical sum frequency (SF) microscope, this light field is ...