High localization, focal depth and contrast by means of nonlinear Bessel Beams

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6160-6167

  Polesana, Paolo ^a   Faccio, Daniele ^a   Trapani, Paolo Di ^a   Dubietis, Audrius ^b   Piskarskas, Algis ^b   Couairon, Arnaud ^c   Porras, Miguel A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; METHANOL; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS;

CONTRAST; FOCAL DEPTH; FOCAL LENGTH; LOCALIZATION; NONLINEAR BESSEL BEAMS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 24044520699     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006160     Document Type: Article

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