STED nanoscopy with mass-produced laser diodes

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 8066-8072

  Schrof, Susanne ^a   Staudt, Thorsten ^a   Rittweger, Eva ^a   Wittenmayer, Nina ^c   Dresbach, Thomas ^c   Engelhardt, Johann ^a   Hell, Stefan W ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; VIDEODISKS;

BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; FAR-FIELD; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE SENSING; HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONS; LASER DIODES; LASER POINTER; NANO SCALE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION; SUPERRESOLUTION METHODS; SYNAPTIC PROTEINS;

FLUORESCENCE;

ARTICLE; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79955380384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.008066     Document Type: Article

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