Dark transition states state detection

Fig. 19.3. Molecular transitions and states utilized to break the diffraction barrier. Each nanoscopy modality resorts to a specific pair of bright and dark states. Several concepts share the same states, but differ by the direction in which the molecule is driven optically (say A B or B A) oi hy whether the transition is performed in a targeted way or stochastically. The targeted read-out modality drives the transition with an optical intensity I and hence operates with probabilities of the molecule of being in A or B. This probability depends on the rates k of the transitions between the two states and hence also on the applied intensity I. The probability pA of the molecule to remain in A typically decreases as indicated in the panel, pa -C 1 means that the molecule is bound or switched to the state B. This switching from A to B or vice versa allows the confinement of A to subdiffraction-sized coordinates of extent Ar at a position rt where /(r) is zero. In the stochastic read-out mode, the probability that state A emerges in space is evenly distributed across the sample and kept so low that the molecules in state A are further apart from each other than the diffraction limit. An optically nonlinear aspect of the stochastic concept is the fact that the molecules undergo a switch to A from where they suddenly emit 1 detectable photons in a row...

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