Imaging acousto-optic tunable filter with 0.35-micrometer spatial resolution

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 25, 1996, Pages 5220-5226

  Wachman, Elliot S ^a   Niu, Wen Hua ^a   Farkas, Daniel L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acousto optic tunable filter; Fluorescence; Imaging; Microscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 5544237647     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.005220     Document Type: Article

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