Measurement of three-dimensional dipole orientation of a single fluorescent nanoemitter by emission polarization analysis

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Lethiec, Clotilde ^a   Laverdant, Julien ^a,b   Vallon, Henri ^a   Javaux, Clémentine ^c   Dubertret, Benoît ^c   Frigerio, Jean Marc ^a   Schwob, Catherine ^a   Coolen, Laurent ^a   Maître, Agnès ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Nanophysics; Optics; Photonics

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; OPTICS; PHOTONICS; POLARIMETERS;

ANALYTICAL RELATIONS; DEFOCUSED MICROSCOPY; IN-PLANE ORIENTATION; NANOPHYSICS; ORIENTATION MEASUREMENTS; POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; POLARIZATION ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ORIENTATION;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84904579215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.021037     Document Type: Article

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