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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 16, Issue 19, Pages 15297-15303Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015297
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- COEXUS [ANR-05-NANO-035-01]
- ANTARES [ANR-07-NANO-006-03]
- NanoDrill [PEPS07]
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Latex microspheres are used as a simple and low-cost means to achieve three axis electromagnetic confinement below the standard diffraction limit. We demonstrate their use to enhance the fluorescence fluctuation detection of single molecules. Compared to confocal microscopy with high numerical aperture, we monitor a detection volume reduction of one order of magnitude below the diffraction limit together with a 5-fold gain in the fluorescence rate per molecule. This offers new opportunities for a broad range of applications in biophotonics, plasmonics, optical data storage and ultramicroscopy. (c) 2008 Optical Society of America.
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