High resolution imaging with differential infrared absorption micro-spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 25632-25642

  Pita, Isabel ^a   Hendaoui, Nordine ^b   Liu, Ning ^a   Kumbham, Mahendar ^a   Tofail, Syed A M ^a   Peremans, André ^b   Silien, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INFRARED ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION;

DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION; DIFFERENTIAL TRANSMISSION; FAR-FIELD FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION; VIBRATIONAL ABSORPTION;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84887495344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.025632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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