Measurement of group delay dispersion of high numerical aperture objective lenses using two-photon excited fluorescence

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 397-401

  Guild, Jeffrey B ^a   Xu, Chris ^a   Webb, Watt W ^a  

^a Department of Materials Science and Engineering   (United States)

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EID: 0001748444     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000397     Document Type: Article

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