Confocal scanning optical microscope for imaging weak amplitude and phase objects

Michael G. Somekh; M. S. Valera; Roland K. Appel

doi:10.1117/12.60190

1 August 1992 Confocal scanning optical microscope for imaging weak amplitude and phase objects

Michael G. Somekh, M. S. Valera, Roland K. Appel

Proceedings Volume 1647, Holography, Interferometry, and Optical Pattern Recognition in Biomedicine II; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.60190
Event: OE/LASE '92, 1992, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper describes a new optical microscope that can simultaneously acquire images with differential phase and differential intensity contrast. The instrument has a confocal response, thereby eliminating flare from features out of the plane of focus, and an existing capability of actively controlling the microscope transfer function electronically. Images are shown that demonstrate the operation of the system

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Michael G. Somekh, M. S. Valera, and Roland K. Appel "Confocal scanning optical microscope for imaging weak amplitude and phase objects", Proc. SPIE 1647, Holography, Interferometry, and Optical Pattern Recognition in Biomedicine II, (1 August 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.60190

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