Compound parabolic concentrator probe for efficient light collection in spectroscopy of biological tissue

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 758-763

  Tanaka, Kazunori ^b   Pacheco, Marcos T T ^a   Brennan, James F ^b   Itzkan, Irving ^b   Berger, Andrew J ^b   Dasari, Ramachandra R ^b   Feld, Michael S ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA E DESENVOLVIMENTO   (Brazil)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological spectroscopy; Nonimaging optics; Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000254008     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.000758     Document Type: Article

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