Birefringence imaging with illumination mode near field scanning optical microscope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3467, Issue , 1998, Pages 13-17

  Umeda, Norihiro ^a   Iijima, Hitoshi ^a   Ishikawa, Motofusa ^a   Takayanagi, Atsuo ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Friction transfer; Illumination mode; Near field; Optical microscope; Polarization; Polymer

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHTING; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCANNING;

AZIMUTH ANGLE; BIREFRINGENCE IMAGING; ILLUMINATION MODE; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPE; ZEEMAN LASER;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0007982909     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.326834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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