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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 2.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Phys. 2010 Nov 1;6(11):883–887. doi: 10.1038/nphys1765

Figure 1. Principle of Zernike phase contrast.

Figure 1

Interference of undiffracted light (red) that will be phase shifted by the phase ring with diffracted light (green) translates phase variations of the object into intensity modulations in the image plane.