Confocal pattern period in multiple-aperture confocal imaging systems with coherent illumination

Optics Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 751-753

  Liang, Minhua ^a   Stehr, Robert L ^a   Krause, Andrew W ^a  

^a Biophysica Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT MODULATORS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SCANNING;

CONFOCAL FRAME RATE; DIGITAL MICROMIRROR DEVICE; LIGHT UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY; MULTIPLE APERTURE CONFOCAL IMAGING; PROGRAMMABLE CONFOCAL SCANNING; STANDARD NIPKOW DISK CONFOCAL SCANNING SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0031161862     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.22.000751     Document Type: Article

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