Differential phase–contrast microscope with a split detector for the readout system of a multilayered optical memory

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 2466-2470

  Kawata, Y ^a   Juskaitis R ^a   Tanaka, T ^a   Wilson, T ^b   Kawata, S ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001731236     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.002466     Document Type: Article

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