Instantaneous non-diffracting light-sheet generation by controlling spatial coherence

Quasi-non-diffracting static light sheets generated by multiple slit interference mask

“…This can be particularly harmful in live-cell imaging experiments, where maintaining the health of the sample is crucial for accurate observations. 2,3,7 As LSFM relies on the selective illumination of a thin plane within the biological sample, minimizing the implications of sidelobes is of great importance. Thus, this paper proposes and demonstrates a straightforward method for generating a quasi-non-diffracting static light sheet with suppressed sidelobe by just using an amplitude mask with evenly spaced identical parallel slits-multiple slit interference mask (MSIM).…”