Confocal total-internal-reflection fluorescence microscopy with a high-aperture parabolic mirror lens

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 3277-3283

  Ruckstuhl, Thomas ^a   Seeger, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FLUORESCENCE; GLASS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

TOTAL-INTERNAL-REFLECTION;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 0041972289     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003277     Document Type: Article

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