In three sections, this book discusses high-aperture optical systems, nonlinear optical techniques, and various techniques that are finding new applications. The new second edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded to account for new advances in fluorescence imaging and diffractive optical lenses. 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 represents a unique compilation of valuable and novel scientific work that is scarcely to be found elsewhere. The contributing authors are acknowledged leaders of their respective fields.

Klappentext

This text on contemporary optical systems is intended for optical researchers and engineers, graduate students and optical microscopists in the biological and biomedical sciences. In three sections, the book discusses high-aperture optical systems, nonlinear optical techniques, and various techniques that are finding new applications. The new second edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded to account for new advances in fluorescence imaging and diffractive optical lenses.

Inhalt

High Aperture Optical Systems and Super-Resolution.- Exploring Living Cells and Molecular Dynamics with Polarized Light Microscopy.- Characterizing High Numerical Aperture Microscope Objective Lenses.- Diffractive Optical Lenses in Imaging Systems - High-Resolution Microscopy and Diffractive Solid Immersion Systems.- Diffractive Read-Out of Optical Discs.- Superresolution in Scanning Optical Systems.- Depth of Field Control in Incoherent Hybrid Imaging Systems.- Wavefront Coding Fluorescence Microscopy Using High Aperture Lenses.- Nonlinear Techniques in Optical Imaging.- Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy.- Nonlinear Optical Microscopy.- Parametric Nonlinear Optical Techniques in Microscopy.- Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy Versus Third Harmonic Generation Microscopy in Biological Tissues.- Miscellaneous Methods in Optical Imaging.- Adaptive Optics.- Low-Coherence Interference Microscopy.- Surface Plasmon and Surface Wave Microscopy.- Optical Coherence Tomography.- Near-Field Optical Microscopy and Application to Nanophotonics.- Optical Trapping of Small Particles.