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A Guide to Structured Illumination TIRF Microscopy at High Speed with Multiple Colors
Published on: May 30, 2016
Spatiotemporal structured light: introduction
Abstract:
This feature issue of the Journal of the Optical Society of America A presents articles that explore spatiotemporal structured light: the tailoring of light's spatial, phase, polarization, and spatial and temporal degrees of freedom.
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