Wide spectral range confocal microscope based on endlessly single-mode fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 18811-18819

  Hubbard, R ^a,b   Ovchinnikov, Yu B ^a   Hayes, J ^c   Richardson, D J ^c   Fu, Y J ^d   Lin, S D ^d   See, P ^a   Sinclair, A G ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; MICROSCOPES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

BROAD SPECTRAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; INAS QUANTUM DOTS; LARGE-MODE-AREA PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PILLAR MICROCAVITY; SINGLE MODE; SINGLE MODE OPERATION; SINGLE PHOTONS; SPATIAL MODES; WIDE SPECTRAL RANGE;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; SEMICONDUCTOR; STATISTICS;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTORS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 77956379693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018811     Document Type: Article

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