Point spread function of optical microscopes imaging through stratified media

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2964-2969

  Haeberle O ^a   Ammar, M ^a   Furukawa, H ^b   Tenjimbayashl, K ^b   Torok P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; DIFFRACTION THEORY; IMAGING MODELS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPES;

PHYSICAL OPTICS;

EID: 1842814262     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002964     Document Type: Article

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