Resolution improvement in two-photon fluorescence microscopy with a single-mode fiber

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1852-1857

  Bird, Damian ^a   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; FLUORESCENCE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

AXIAL RESPONSE;

MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

EID: 0036543156     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001852     Document Type: Article

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