Interference effect in apertureless near-field fluorescence imaging

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 34, 2003, Pages 6880-6888

  Fragola, Alexandra ^a   Aigouy, Lionel ^a   Boccara, Claude ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FRINGE SPACING; GLUE LAYERS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0345117250     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.006880     Document Type: Article

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