Highly efficient optical detection of surface–generated fluorescence

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 724-732

  Enderlein, Jörg ^a   Ruckstuhl, Thomas ^a   Seeger, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 0001356789     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.000724     Document Type: Article

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