Confocal microscopy using variable-focal-length microlenses and an optical fiber bundle

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 28, 2005, Pages 5928-5936

  Yang, Lisong ^a,c   Mac Raighne, Aaron ^a   McCabe, Eithne M ^a   Dunbar, L Andrea ^a,d   Scharf, Toralf ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; THIN FILMS;

APERTURE ARRAYS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; VARIABLE-FOCAL-LENGTH (VFLO);

MICROLENSES;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LENSES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL;

EID: 28044474084     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.005928     Document Type: Article

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