Direct observation of light focusing by single photoreceptor cell nuclei

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 11043-11060

  Blaszczak, Zuzanna ^a   Kreysing, Moritz ^a,b   Guck, Jochen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; VISION;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; INCIDENT LIGHT; NEAR-FIELD INTENSITY; OPTICAL CHARACTERISATION; OPTICAL FUNCTION; OUTER NUCLEAR LAYERS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL;

LIGHT;

ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; MOUSE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MICE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 84899877205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.011043     Document Type: Article

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