An extended scheme for counting fluorescent molecules by photon-antibunching

Laser Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 119-124

  Ta, Haisen ^a   Wolfrum, Jürgen ^a   Herten, Dirk Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-BUNCHING; AVALANCHE PHOTON DIODES; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLUORESCENCE DYES; FLUORESCENT MOLECULES; HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY; PULSED LASER SOURCES; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SINGLE-MOLECULE DETECTION; STABILIZING AGENTS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING;

AVALANCHE DIODES; BIOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; LASER EXCITATION; MOLECULES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASERS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 76849096870     PISSN: 1054660X     EISSN: 15556611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1054660X09170204     Document Type: Article

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