Interferometric resolution improvement for confocal microscopes

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 12206-12216

  Wicker, Kai ^a   Heintzmann, Rainer ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

CONFOCAL SYSTEMS; EXTENDED FOCUS IMAGING; INTERFEROMETRIC DETECTION; PARTIAL IMAGE INVERSION;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 34648834871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.012206     Document Type: Article

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