Multimodal analysis of pearls and pearl treatments by using optical coherence tomography and fluorescence spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6420-6432

  Ju, Myeong Jin ^a   Lee, Sang Jin ^a   Kim, Yuri ^a   Shin, Jun Geun ^a   Kim, Hae Yeon ^b   Lim, Yiheng ^c   Yasuno, Yoshiaki ^c   Lee, Byeong Ha ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Pearl Laboratory   (South Korea)

^c Korea Pearl Laboratory ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EXCITATION BEAMS; FLUORESCENCE PROBES; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; INTEGRATED OPTICAL SYSTEMS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LASER DIODES; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SWEPT LASERS; TOMOGRAPHIC;

GEMS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PINCTADA;

ANIMALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PINCTADA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 79953211579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006420     Document Type: Article

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