Aberration correction for stimulated emission depletion microscopy with coherent optical adaptive technique

Wei Yan; Yanlong Yang; Yang Li; Xiao Peng; Danying Lin; Junle Qu; Tong Ye

doi:10.1117/12.2211907

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15 March 2016 Aberration correction for stimulated emission depletion microscopy with coherent optical adaptive technique

Wei Yan, Yanlong Yang, Yang Li, Xiao Peng, Danying Lin, Junle Qu, Tong Ye

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Proceedings Volume 9717, Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Control for Biological Systems II; 97170K (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211907
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

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Stimulated emission depletion microscopy (STED) has become one of the powerful research tools in the field of superresolution microscopy. As its spatial resolution is gained by phase modulation of the light field, the aberrations produced by optical systems and specimens may have negative impact on the focusing properties of two beams, especially the STED beam, resulting in reduced spatial resolution. In thick samples, the aberration effect may play an even more critical role in affecting spatial resolution. Here, we report our recent effort in correcting the aberration in STED microscopy by using coherent optical adaptive technique (COAT) so that the resolution can be improved.

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Wei Yan, Yanlong Yang, Yang Li, Xiao Peng, Danying Lin, Junle Qu, and Tong Ye "Aberration correction for stimulated emission depletion microscopy with coherent optical adaptive technique", Proc. SPIE 9717, Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Control for Biological Systems II, 97170K (15 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211907

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