Afterpulsing and its correction in fluorescence correlation spectroscopy experiments

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 4031-4036

  Zhao, Ming ^a   Jin, Lei ^a   Chen, Bo ^a   Ding, Yao ^a   Ma, Hui ^a   Chen, Dieyan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

SIGNAL PULSES;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0042810720     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004031     Document Type: Article

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