A STED microscope designed for routine biomedical applications

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 147, Issue , 2014, Pages 57-68

  Göorlitz, Frederik ^a   Hoyer, Patrick ^a   Falk, Henning J ^a   Kastrup, Lars ^b   Engelhardt, Johann ^a   Hell, Stefan W ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL DESIGN;

BEAM SCANNER; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; LENGTH SCALE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; POLARIZING ELEMENTS; ROBUST SYSTEMS; SUB-DIFFRACTION; MULTI-COLORS;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84903533783     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/pier14042708     Document Type: Article

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