Primary spherical aberration in two-color (two-photon) excitation fluorescence microscopy with two confocal excitation beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 3398-3406

  Lim, May ^a   Saloma, Caesar ^a  

^a Diliman ^*  (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PHOTONS;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0043095389     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003398     Document Type: Article

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