Fiber-optic fluorescence correlation spectrometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 7538-7542

  Garai, Kanchan ^a   Muralidhar, Mohan ^a   Maiti, Sudipta ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL FIBERS; REACTION KINETICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROMETERS;

FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY (FCS); PROBE SIZES; SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBERS;

OPTICAL CORRELATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

COLLOIDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 33750853212     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.007538     Document Type: Article

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