High-density optical data storage with one-photon and two-photon near-field fluorescence microscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 938-940

  Shen, Yuzhen ^a   Swiatkiewicz, Jacek ^a   Jakubczyk, Daniel ^a,c   Xu, Faming ^a   Prasad, Paras N ^a   Vaia, Richard A ^b   Reinhardt, Bruce A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHOTONS;

TWO-PHOTON EXCITATION;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 0000938620     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000938     Document Type: Article

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