Investigation of the point spread function of surface plasmon-coupled emission microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4634-4646

  Tang, Wai Teng ^a   Chung, Euiheon ^b   Kim, Yang Hyo ^b   So, Peter T C ^b   Sheppard, Colin J R ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FLUOROPHORES; GLASS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

SURFACE PLASMON COUPLED EMISSION MICROSCOPY (SPCEM); WIDE FIELD MICROSCOPY;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 34247180177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004634     Document Type: Article

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