Axial gain resolution in optical sectioning fluorescence microscopy by shaded-ring filters.
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چکیده
We present a new family of pupil masks to control the axial component of the intensity distribution in the focal region of tightly focused light fields. The filters, which consist of a circular clear pupil with a single shaded ring, allow to control the width of the central lobe of the axial spot together with the residual sidelobes energy. The filters can be applied to improve the optical sectioning capacity of different scanning microscopes.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Optics express
دوره 11 15 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003