Spectral emission imaging to map photonic properties below the crystal surface of 3D photonic crystals

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• JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2101-2108 (2009)
• Blum, Christian; Mosk, Allard P; Otto, Cees; Vos, Willem L; Subramaniam, Vinod
• We present the application of spectral emission imaging microscopy as a method to quantitatively map photonic properties from below the surface of strongly interacting photonic...

Improved spatial resolution in fluorescence focal modulation microscopy

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3508-3510 (2009)
• Gong, Wei; Si, Ke; Chen, Nanguang; Sheppard, Colin J R
• We show that the focal modulation microscopy (FMM), which combines a spatial phase modulator with confocal microscopy, results in an improvement in spatial resolution. This technique...

Automatic deconvolution of 4Pi-microscopy data with arbitrary phase

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3583-3585 (2009)
• Vicidomini, Giuseppe; Hell, Stefan W; Schönle, Andreas
• We propose a maximum a posteriori-based method that solves an important practical problem in the deconvolution of 4Pi images by simultaneously delivering an estimate of both the...

All-fiber CARS microscopy of live cells

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• Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20700-20706 (2009)
• Pegoraro, Adrian F; Ridsdale, Andrew; Moffatt, Douglas J; Pezacki, John P; Thomas, Brian K; Fu, Libin; Dong, Liang; Fermann, Martin E; Stolow, Albert
• Using an all-fiber laser system consisting of a femtosecond Er/Yb fiber oscillator as the pump and an ultra-highly nonlinear fiber for Stokes generation, we demonstrate multimodal...

High-resolution total-internal-reflection fluorescence microscopy using periodically nanostructured glass slides

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2550-2557 (2009)
• Sentenac, Anne; Belkebir, Kamal; Giovannini, Hugues; Chaumet, Patrick C
• We compare the performance of a total-internal-reflection fluorescence microscope under varying illumination and substrate conditions. The samples are deposited on a standard...

Spectroscopic phase microscopy for quantifying hemoglobin concentrations in intact red blood cells

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3668-3670 (2009)
• Park, YongKeun; Yamauchi, Toyohiko; Choi, Wonshik; Dasari, Ramachandra; Feld, Michael S
• We report a practical method for label-free quantification of specific molecules using spectroscopic imaging of sample-induced phase shifts. Diffraction phase microscopy equipped...