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Finite sized coherent and incoherent detectors in confocal microscopy
Author(s) -
WILSON T.,
TAN J. B.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of microscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1365-2818
pISSN - 0022-2720
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1996.129410.x
Subject(s) - optics , detector , polarization (electrochemistry) , physics , confocal , microscope , microscopy , confocal microscopy , chemistry
We consider the effects of finite sized coherent and incoherent detectors on the axial resolution of confocal microscopes. We adopt a high‐angle vector approach which takes the polarization property of the object into account. We further consider polarization imaging and show that coherent detection has an advantage over incoherent detection in terms of the value of the extinction coefficient. The desirability of aberration correction is briefly discussed.