Unmixing coral fluorescence emission spectra and predicting new spectra under different excitation conditions

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 486-494

  Fux, Eran ^a   Mazel, Charles ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC   (United States)

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EID: 0001297215     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.000486     Document Type: Article

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