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Simultaneous Multicolor Imaging of Biological Structures with Fluorescence Photoactivation Localization Microscopy
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Two-color imaging by the use of patterned optical filters bonded to focal-plane-array detectors
Applied Optics
|December 4, 2010
Abstract:
Two-color imaging by the use of a patterned optical filter directly bonded to a HgCdTe focal-plane array is demonstrated. The optical filter is spatially patterned, by multilayer lithographic techniques, to provide multicolor response in the midwavelength infrared by the use of a single substrate.
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