Resolution enhancement of confocal microscopy by subtraction method with vector beams

Optics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3118-3121

  Segawa, Susumu ^a   Kozawa, Yuichi ^a   Sato, Shunichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION;

AZIMUTHAL POLARIZATION; AZIMUTHALLY POLARIZED BEAMS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMAGING SIMULATION; RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT; SUBTRACTION IMAGING; SUBTRACTION METHOD; TRANSVERSE MODE;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84901713295     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.39.003118     Document Type: Article

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