Multiphoton upconversion in rare earth doped nanocrystals for sub-diffractive microscopy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 14, 2013, Pages

  Caillat, L ^a,b   Hajj, B ^b,c   Shynkar, V ^b   Michely, L ^a   Chauvat, D ^b   Zyss, J ^b   Pelle F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION OF LIGHTS; HIGH-LATERAL RESOLUTION; LATERAL RESOLUTION; MICROSCOPIC IMAGING; MULTI-PHOTON MICROSCOPY; RARE EARTH DOPED; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; UP-CONVERSION PROCESS;

MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

RARE EARTHS;

EID: 84876363333     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4800445     Document Type: Article

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