Photonic crystal slabs for surface contrast enhancement in microscopy of transparent objects

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 14451-14459

  Nazirizadeh, Yousef ^a   Becker, Tim ^b   Reverey, Julia ^a   Selhuber Unke, Christine ^a   Rapoport, Daniel H ^b   Lemmer, Uli ^c   Gerken, Martina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b Fraunhofer Institute for Marine Biotechnology   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

AUTOMATED RECOGNITION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; LABEL-FREE APPROACH; OPTICAL MODES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLAB; QUALITY FACTORS; TRANSPARENT OBJECTS;

PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84863762416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.014451     Document Type: Article

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