Demonstration of a no-moving-parts axial scanning confocal microscope using liquid crystal optics

Optics Communications

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 461-467

  Khan, Sajjad A ^a   Riza, Nabeel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE;

AXIAL SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE (ASCM) SYSTEMS; LIQUID CRYSTAL (LC) LENSES; NUMERICAL APERTURE (NA); THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGING;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33748194188     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2006.03.068     Document Type: Article

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