Influence of fluorescence time characteristics on the spatial resolution of CW-stimulated emission depletion microscopy

Qin Haiyun^{1, †}, Zhao Wei^{1, †}, Zhang Chen¹, Liu Yong², Wang Guiren³, Wang Kaige^{1, ‡}

(color online) Comparison of the suppression functions in the CW STED model ( n 2 ) and in the picosecond STED system (i.e., η ( x ) ≅ exp − ln ( 2 ) I sted x / I sat ) .^[10] The simulations of the two suppression functions are both based on the conditions of case 2 in Table 1.