Optical saturation measurements of fluorophores in solution with pulsed femtosecond excitation and two-dimensional CCD camera detection

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 4320-4328

  Ghauharali, Rick I ^a   Müller, Michiel ^a   Buist, Arjan H ^a   Sosnowski, Thomas S ^b   Norris, Theodore B ^b   Squier, Jeff ^c   Brakenhoff, G J ^a  

^a The Institute for Molecular Cell Biology   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CCD camera detection; Femtosecond excitation; Optical saturation

Indexed keywords

EID: 5544262615     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004320     Document Type: Article

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