Two-photon direct laser writing of ultracompact multi-lens objectives

Nature Photonics

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 554-560

  Gissibl, Timo ^a   Thiele, Simon ^a   Herkommer, Alois ^a   Giessen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; COMPUTER VISION; CYTOLOGY; MANUFACTURE; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS;

DIRECT LASER WRITING; ILLUMINATION SYSTEM; NON-SPHERICAL; NOVEL CONCEPT; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; PROCESS CHAIN; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM EMITTERS;

LENSES;

EID: 84976320002     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2016.121     Document Type: Article

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