Long working distance fluorescence lifetime imaging with stimulated emission and electronic time delay

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 11445-11450

  Lin, Po Yen ^a,b   Lee, Shin Shian ^a   Chang, Chia Seng ^b   Kao, Fu Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAY CIRCUITS; FLUORESCENCE; STIMULATED EMISSION;

ELECTRONIC TIME DELAYS; FLUORESCENCE DETECTION; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME MEASUREMENTS; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; NANOSECOND RANGE; PULSE SEPARATIONS; PUMP-PROBE CONFIGURATION; SPATIAL COHERENCE; TIME DELAYED TRIGGER; WORKING DISTANCES;

FLUOROPHORES;

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PH; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENT DYES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIGHT; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTORS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861116205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011445     Document Type: Article

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