Generalized model for incoherent detection in confocal optical microscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Hammoum, Rachid ^a   Hamady, Sidi Ould Saad ^a   Fontana, Marc D ^a  

^a SUPELEC   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

CONFOCAL OPTICAL MICROSCOPIES; DETECTION PLANE; ELECTRIC FIELD STRENGTH; GENERALIZED MODELS; JONES MATRIX; OPTICAL TECHNIQUE; QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 77955986864     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000D96     Document Type: Article

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