Engineering the collected field for single-molecule orientation determination

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3660-3673

  Sikorski, Zbigniew ^a   Davis, Lloyd M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; FLUORESCENCE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL;

COVERGLASS IMMERSION FLUID INTERFACES; POLARIZATION BEAMSPLITTER; SINGLE MOLECULE SPECTROSCOPY; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS (SLMS); WEYL REPRESENTATIONS;

MOLECULAR ORIENTATION;

BIOPOLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BIOPOLYMERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; OPTICS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 41149104624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.003660     Document Type: Article

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