2011
DOI: 10.1117/1.3553007
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Lateral and axial resolutions of an angle-deviation microscope for different numerical apertures: experimental results

Abstract: This paper presents a study of the lateral and axial resolutions of a transmission laser-scanning angle-deviation microscope (TADM) with different numerical aperture (NA) values. The TADM is based on geometric optics and surface plasmon resonance principles. The surface height is proportional to the phase difference between two marginal rays of the test beam, which is passed through the test medium. We used common-path heterodyne interferometry to measure the phase difference in real time, and used a personal … Show more

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“…However, only two-dimensional patterns can be obtained. Some optical microscopes with three-dimensional (3-D) measurement capability, such as, confocal [1], optical coherence tomography [2][3], angle deviation [4][5], differential interference contrast (DIC) [6][7], total internal reflection fluorescence [8][9], scanning near-field [10], second-harmonicgeneration [11][12] etc, were useful for observing the images of biological samples. Although most of their resolutions are admissible, the scanning method cannot observe a large area in short-time and the algorisms of 3-D imaging calculation are typically very complex and computationally intensive.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, only two-dimensional patterns can be obtained. Some optical microscopes with three-dimensional (3-D) measurement capability, such as, confocal [1], optical coherence tomography [2][3], angle deviation [4][5], differential interference contrast (DIC) [6][7], total internal reflection fluorescence [8][9], scanning near-field [10], second-harmonicgeneration [11][12] etc, were useful for observing the images of biological samples. Although most of their resolutions are admissible, the scanning method cannot observe a large area in short-time and the algorisms of 3-D imaging calculation are typically very complex and computationally intensive.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, only two-dimensional (2D) patterns can be obtained. Some optical microscopes with three-dimensional (3D) measurement capability, such as confocal (Masters, 2005), optical coherence tomography (Dubois et al, 2002, 2008), angle deviation (Chiu et al, 2007, 2011), differential interference contrast (Goldberg & Burmeister, 1986; Murphy, 2001), total internal reflection fluorescence (Axelrod, 1989, 2001), scanning near-field (Roy & Knigh, 2010), second-harmonic-generation (Yazdanfar et al, 2004; Yoshiki et al, 2007), etc., are useful for observing images of biological samples. Although most of their resolutions are admissible, the scanning method cannot observe a large area in short time and the algorithms of 3D imaging calculation are typically very complex and computationally intensive.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%