Fundamentals of optical microscopy

Optical Fluorescence Microscopy: From the Spectral to the Nano Dimension

Volumn 9783642151750, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-36

  Quercioli, Franco ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

HIGH SPEED ACQUISITION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 84868624127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15175-0_1     Document Type: Chapter

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