Effect of detector size on optical resolution in phase contrast microscopes

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 623-625

  Munro, Peter R T ^a   Török, Peter ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPES; VICINITY;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 1642603842     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.000623     Document Type: Article

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