Török / Kao Optical Imaging and Microscopy

Techniques and Advanced Systems
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-3-540-46022-0
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 87, 398 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Springer Series in Optical Sciences

The motivation to collect contributions from a wide variety of subjects in cont- porary optics, centered around optical imaging, originates from two ideas. First, it is easy to recognise that certain ?elds of contemporary optics have been devel- ing in quite a parallel manner. Sometimes workers of the di?erent ?elds discover each other’s contributions, but mostly they do not. One of our major goals is to show how closely these contributions are inter-related. Such an example is the - velopment of scanning/confocal optical microscopy and optical data storage. In the former, imaging in the classical sense, occurs by scanning a tightly focused laser beam over the sample. In optical data storage imaging does not occur as the aim is to detect pits, rather than to image them. Nevertheless, the optical systems of these two arrangements have striking resemblance and hence their governing equations are practically the same. The second motivation of this book is to collect contri- tions from imaging related subjects that were not previously published in this form or they are di?cult to access. Such examples are a chapter on white light interfer- etry, surface plasmon microscopy or the characterisation of high numerical aperture microscope objective lenses. We are extremely pleased that we have contributions in this book from the - ternational leaders of individual ?elds. It has been our privilege to work with these authors and we would like to take this opportunity to thank them all.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Török, Peter

Kao, Fu-Jen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.