Wide-field high-resolution solid immersion fluorescence microscopy applying an aplanatic solid immersion lens

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 6160-6169

  Wang, Lin ^a   Pitter, Mark C ^a   Somekh, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LENSES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EFFECTIVE NUMERICAL APERTURE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; HIGH-RESOLUTION OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL SIMULATION; SOLID IMMERSION LENS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 78149436573     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.006160     Document Type: Article

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