Optical Imaging and Microscopy Techniques and Advanced Systems /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Török, Peter (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kao, Fu-Jen (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 87
• Subjects: Lasers.; Photonics.; Solid state physics.; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Microwaves.; Optical engineering.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Solid State Physics.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.

This text on contemporary optical systems is intended for optical researchers and engineers, graduate students and optical microscopists in the biological and biomedical sciences. It consists of three parts: The first discusses high-aperture optical systems, which form the backbone of optical micros...

Table of Contents:

• I. High Aperture Optical Systems and Super-Resolution
• 1 Exploring Living Cells and Molecular Dynamics with Polarized Light Microscopy
• 2 Characterizing High Numerical Aperture Microscope Objective Lenses
• 3 Diffractive Read-Out of Optical Discs
• 4 Superresolution in Scanning Optical Systems
• 5 Depth of Field Control in Incoherent Hybrid Imaging Systems
• 6 Wavefront Coding Fluorescence Microscopy Using High Aperture Lenses
• II. Nonlinear Techniques in Optical Imaging
• 7 Nonlinear Optical Microscopy
• 8 Parametric Nonlinear Optical Techniques in Microscopy
• 9 Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy Versus Third Harmonic Generation Microscopy in Biological Tissues
• III. Miscellaneous Methods in Optical Imaging
• 10 Adaptive Optics
• 11 Low-Coherence Interference Microscopy
• 12 Surface Plasmon and Surface Wave Microscopy
• 13 Optical Coherence Tomography
• 14 Near-Field Optical Microscopy and Application to Nanophotonics
• 15 Optical Trapping of Small Particles.