The use of Gauss-Laguerre vector beams in STED microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3605-3617

  Torok P ^a   Munro, P R T ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; FOCUSING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MICROSCOPES; OPTIMIZATION; VECTORS;

FRESNEL NUMBER; GAUSS-LAGUERRE BEAMS; IMAGE FORMATION THEORY;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 4644233535     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003605     Document Type: Article

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