Improving weak-signal identification via predetection background suppression by a pixel-level, surface-wave enabled dark-field aperture

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2636-2638

  Zheng, Guoan ^a   Yang, Changhuei ^a,b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION; BACKGROUND SUPPRESSION; COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; DARK-FIELD; IMPROVED SNR; INTEGRATION TIME; SIGNAL IDENTIFICATION; SIGNAL-TO-BACKGROUND RATIO;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PIXELS;

METAL; OXIDE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; METALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OXIDES; SEMICONDUCTORS; SOFTWARE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77955215679     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.002636     Document Type: Article

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