Laser scanning confocal microscope with programmable amplitude, phase, and polarization of the illumination beam

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Boruah, B R ^a   Neil, M A A ^b  

^a GAUHATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAMS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROSCOPES; MIRRORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; POLARIZATION; PRISMS;

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; BEAM-FORMING; COMPUTER-GENERATED HOLOGRAMS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; CROSS-POLARIZED; DE EXCITATIONS; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTIONS; FOCAL VOLUMES; ILLUMINATION BEAMS; LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; LINE-SCANNING; LIQUID CRYSTAL SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVES; OFF-AXIS; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS; PUPIL PLANES; REAL TIME; SCAN MIRRORS; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETIONS;

SCANNING;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY;

HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION;

EID: 59349084474     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3072663     Document Type: Article

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