High resolution multiple excitation spot optical microscopy

Dilipkumar, Shilpa and Mondal, Partha Pratim (2011) High resolution multiple excitation spot optical microscopy. In: Aip Advances, 1 (2).

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Abstract

We propose fundamental improvements in three-dimensional (3D) resolution of multiple excitation spot optical microscopy. The excitation point spread function (PSF) is generated by two interfering counter-propagating depth-of-focus beams along the optical axis. Detection PSF is obtained by coherently interfering the emitted fluorescent light (collected by both the objectives) at the detector. System PSF shows upto 14-fold reduction in focal volume as compared to confocal, and almost 2-fold improvement in lateral resolution. Proposed PSF has the ability to simultaneously excite multiple 3D-spots of sub-femtoliter volume. Potential applications are in fluorescence microscopy and nanobioimaging. Copyright 2011 Author(s). This article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. [doi:10.1063/1.3598413]

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Aip Advances
Publisher:	American Institute of Physics
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to American Institute of Physics.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Instrumentation Appiled Physics
Date Deposited:	18 May 2012 09:17
Last Modified:	18 May 2012 09:17
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/44421

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