Two-photon fluorescence correlation spectroscopy with high count rates and low background using dielectric microspheres

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1075-1083

  Aouani, Heykel ^a   Schön, Peter ^a   Brasselet, Sophie ^a   Rigneault, Hervé ^a   Wenger, Jérôme ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROSPHERES; MOLECULES;

ABSORPTION CROSS SECTIONS; ALEXA FLUOR; BACKGROUND NOISE; BIO-MOLECULAR; BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; BIOPHOTONIC APPLICATIONS; CRITICAL ISSUES; DIELECTRIC MICROSPHERES; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH-COUNT RATE; LATEX SPHERES; LOW BACKGROUND; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; NONLINEAR PROCESS; SINGLE MOLECULE LEVEL; TWO PHOTON EXCITATION FLUORESCENCE; TWO PHOTON FLUORESCENCE;

PHOTONS;

EID: 80051546181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.1.001075     Document Type: Article

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