Characterization of deformable mirrors for spherical aberration correction in optical sectioning microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 6900-6913

  Shaw, Michael ^a   Hall, Simon ^a   Knox, Steven ^a   Stevens, Richard ^a   Paterson, Carl ^b  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WAVEFRONTS;

BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS; DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; INFLUENCE FUNCTIONS; MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPE OBJECTIVE; OPTICAL SECTIONING; OPTICAL SECTIONING MICROSCOPY; PUPIL SIZE; REFRACTIVE INDEX MISMATCH; SPATIAL MODES; SPHERICAL ABERRATION CORRECTION; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS; WAVEFRONT EXPANSION;

ABERRATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; BIREFRINGENCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LENSES; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 77950192875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006900     Document Type: Article

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