Excitation saturation in two-photon fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 27, 2003, Pages 5566-5576

  Berland, Keith ^a   Shen, Guoqing ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PHOTONS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

EXCITATION SATURATION;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0141884811     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.005566     Document Type: Article

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