On the general properties of polarised light conventional and confocal microscopes

Optics Communications

Volumn 148, Issue 4-6, 1998, Pages 300-315

  Torok P ^a   Higdon, P D ^a   Wilson, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Diffraction; Focusing; High aperture; Scanning optical microscopy; Vectorial theory

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FOCUSING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MICROSCOPES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; VECTORS;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; VECTORIAL THEORY;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0032021966     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00576-2     Document Type: Article

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