Note: A 4 ns hardware photon correlator based on a general-purpose field-programmable gate array development board implemented in a compact setup for fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Kalinin, Stanislav ^a   Kühnemuth, Ralf ^a   Vardanyan, Hayk ^a   Seidel, Claus A M ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED SCIENCE; BASIC RESEARCH; COMPACT SOLUTIONS; CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CURRENT GENERATION; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FPGA DESIGN; MULTI-COLORS; OPTICAL SET-UP; REAL TIME; TEST MEASUREMENTS; TIME RESOLUTION; TRANSISTOR-TRANSISTOR LOGIC; TWO PHOTON;

FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HARDWARE; PHOTONS;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

RHODAMINE; RHODAMINE 110;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TIME;

PHOTONS; RHODAMINES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867002431     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4753994     Document Type: Review

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