Wide field amplitude and phase confocal microscope with parallel phase stepping

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 3793-3801

  Sawyer, N B E ^a   Morgan, S P ^a   Somekh, M G ^a   See, C W ^a   Cao, X F ^a,c   Shekunov, B Y ^b   Astrakharchik, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

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EID: 0035471234     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1400156     Document Type: Article

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