A high numerical aperture parabolic mirror as imaging device for confocal microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 458-474

  Lieb, M A ^a   Meixner, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MIRRORS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; PARABOLIC MIRRORS; SPATIAL DIRECTIONS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0001029374     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.8.000458     Document Type: Article

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