Analog mean-delay method for high-speed fluorescence lifetime measurement

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2834-2849

  Moon, Sucbei ^a   Won, Youngjae ^a   Kim, Dug Young ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; SHOT NOISE; SPEED;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME MEASUREMENTS; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; HIGH SPEED MEASUREMENTS; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING TECHNIQUES; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 60549098441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002834     Document Type: Article

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