Confocal microscope with large field and working distance

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 4870-4875

  Webb, Robert H ^a,b   Rogomentich, Fran ^a,b  

^a Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine   (United States)

^b SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES;

MICROSCOPES;

EID: 0032606317     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004870     Document Type: Article

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