21st Century Nanoscience – A Handbook

2Polarized Nano-Optics

Sophie Brasselet

Aix Marseille University

2.1     Introduction

2.2     Molecular Order

2.3     Polarized Fluorescence Microscopy

Excitation and Detection Polarization in Fluorescence: Principles

Application in Cell and Tissue Biology

Towards Super-Resolution Fluorescence Polarized Imaging

2.4     Polarized Nonlinear Microscopy

Two-Photon Fluorescence

Second Harmonic Generation

2.5     Polarization Nano-Optics Provides Subdiffraction Size Information

2.6     Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

2.1   Introduction

Optical microscopy is an extraordinary tool for the investigation of phenomena that occur at the submicrometric scale in molecular, biological, synthetized, or nanofabricated samples. Optical imaging, and in ...