Isotropic diffraction-limited focusing using a single objective lens

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Mudry, Emeric ^a   Le Moal, Eric ^a   Ferrand, Patrick ^a   Chaumet, Patrick C ^a   Sentenac, Anne ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; FOCAL POINTS; INCIDENT BEAMS; LIGHT BEAM; OPTICAL AXIS; SINGLE OBJECTIVE; TIME-REVERSAL;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; LENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

FOCUSING;

EID: 78349296474     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.203903     Document Type: Article

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