Principles of Three-Dimensional Imaging in Confocal Microscopes

Three-dimensional Fourier optics of a thin lens confocal bright-field microscopy with a point detector confocal bright-field microscopy with a finite-sized detector confocal single-photon fluorescence microscopy confocal two-photon fluorescence microscopy fibre-optical confocal microscopy confocal microscopy under ultrashort pulse illumination confocal microscopy with high-aperture objectives significance of three-dimensional transfer functions.