Enhancement of optical sectioning in reflection confocal microscopy by phase-shifting apodizers

Manuel Martinez-Corral; M. T. Caballero; C. Ibanez-Lopez

doi:10.1117/12.526980

19 November 2003 Enhancement of optical sectioning in reflection confocal microscopy by phase-shifting apodizers

Manuel Martinez-Corral, M. T. Caballero, C. Ibanez-Lopez

Proceedings Volume 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.526980
Event: 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, 2002, Florence, Italy

Abstract

The use of phase-only filters permits to shape at will the axial component of the point spread function of nonparaxial focusing systems. The pupil filters consist of a number of concentric annular zones with constant real transmittance. The number of zones and their widths can be adapted according to the shape requirements. The method is applied to importantly improve the optical sectioning capacity of reflection, bright-field confocal microscopes.

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Manuel Martinez-Corral, M. T. Caballero, and C. Ibanez-Lopez "Enhancement of optical sectioning in reflection confocal microscopy by phase-shifting apodizers", Proc. SPIE 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, (19 November 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.526980

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