Correction of diffraction effects in confocal Raman microspectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 8706-8715

  Gallardo, A ^a   Navarro, R ^a   Reinecke, H ^a   Spells, S ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE POLÍMEROS   (Spain)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FOCUSING; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; THIN FILMS;

CONFOCAL RAMAN MICROSPECTROSCOPY; DIFFRACTION EFFECTS; FREDHOLM INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; POLYMER FILMS;

RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 33748944157     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.008706     Document Type: Article

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