High-numerical-aperture optical microscopy and modern applications: Introduction to the feature issue

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 34, 2000, Pages 6277-6278

  Török, Peter ^a   Gu, Min ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Micro Photonics   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL THEORIES;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0004616649     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.006277     Document Type: Article

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