A 0.4-mm-diameter probe for nonlinear optical imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 10098-10104

  Bao, Hongchun ^a   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC ARCS; FLUORESCENCE; HOLEY FIBERS; LASER BEAMS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

DIFFRACTION LIMITS; DOUBLE-CLAD PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; FEMTOSECOND PULSED LASER; FLUORESCENT MICRO SPHERES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL APERTURE; TWO-PHOTON EXCITED FLUORESCENCE; TWO-PHOTON FLUORESCENCE IMAGING;

PROBES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; ENDOSCOPE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENDOSCOPES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MINIATURIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 66849128264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010098     Document Type: Article

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