IR microscopy utilizing intense supercontinuum light source

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 4887-4892

  Dupont, Sune ^a   Petersen, Christian ^a   Thøgersen, Jan ^a   Agger, Christian ^b   Bang, Ole ^b,c   Keiding, Søren Rud ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

CONTACT FREE; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY; HYPERSPECTRAL; INFRARED MICRO-SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED MICROSCOPY; INFRARED REGIONS; INFRARED SPECTRAL REGIONS; MOLECULAR SPECIFICITY; OIL/WATER; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM LIGHT SOURCE;

LIGHT SOURCES;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84857612516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004887     Document Type: Article

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