Optical imaging and microscopy
Subtitle: techniques and advanced systems
By: edited by Peter Török, Fu-Jen Kao
Series: Springer series in optical sciences -- 87; Springer series in optical sciences -- 87.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9783540460220; 9783662143810
Subjects: Spectroscopy and Microscopy; RF and Optical Engineering Microwaves; Imaging systems; Microscopy; Optoelectronic devices; Solid State Physics; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices; Biophysics and Biological Physics
Description: 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 microscopes. Here particular attention is paid to optical data storage. The second part is on the use of non-linear optical techniques, including non-linear optical excitation (second and third harmonic generation and two-photon microscopy) and non-linear spectroscopy (CARS). The final part of the book presents miscellaneous techniques that are either novel or well known but finding new applications. An example of the latter is adaptive optics, which is a well-established method, for example, in astronomy. However, its application in eye imaging in combination with high power pulsed lasers, opens a novel approach to eye surgery.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Polarized Light Microscopy; title: Exploring Living Cells and Molecular Dynamics; title: Pol-Scope; title: Aperture Coding; title: Characterizing High Numerical Aperture Microscope Objective Lenses; title: Diffractive Read-Out of Optical Disks; title: Superresolution in Scanning Optical Systems; title: Nonlinear Optical Microscopy; title: Parametric Nonlinear Optical Techniques in Microscopy; title: Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging in Optical Microscopy; title: Adaptive Optics; title: White-Light Phase-Shifting Interferometry; title: Surface Plasmon and Surface Wave Microscopy; title: Optical Coherence Tomography; title: Applications of Optical Microscopy in Materials Science; title: Near-Field Optical Microscopy and Application to Nano-Photonics; title: Optical Trapping; title: Aperture Coding in Optical Microscopy; title: Extended Field-of-View Optical Systems.