Near-field amplitude and phase recovery using phase-shifting interferometry

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 494-501

  Deutsch, B ^a   Hillenbrand, R ^b   Novotny, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHASE SHIFT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

HETERODYNE METHODS; METALLIC PROBE; NEAR-FIELD SCATTERING SYSTEM; OPTICAL IMAGES;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 38549149294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.000494     Document Type: Article

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