Laser sources in direct-view-scanning, tandem-scanning, or nipkow-disk-scanning confocal microscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 380-385

  Fewer, D T ^a   Hewlett, S T ^a   McCabe, E M ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; HELIUM NEON LASERS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LENSES; LIGHT SOURCES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COMPUTER CONTROLLED PIEZOELECTRIC CRYSTAL; FOURIER-BESSEL TRANSFORM; LASER SOURCES; NIPKOW DISK SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; TANDEM SCANNING MICROSCOPE;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0031648821     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.000380     Document Type: Article

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