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High volume confinement in two-photon fluorescence correlation spectroscopy with radially polarized light

Theo Lasser, Marcel Leutenegger, Iwan Märki
2009
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Abstract

We present the results on two-photon total-internal-reflection fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. The combination of liquid crystal spatial light modulator, providing radial polarization, with ultrafast laser (picosecond Nd:GdVO4 laser) allowed us to take the advantage of nonlinear optical contrast mechanisms to suppress the side-lobe energy specific for radial polarization and reduce the effective excited volume twice compared to one-photon evanescent wave excitation in fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.

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Theo Lasser, Marcel Leutenegger, Iwan Märki
2009
Conference Papers

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/b5dcf8ef-09e9-405e-aaa3-d4193451b351

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