Apodization in confocal scanning microscopy

Pedro Andres; Manuel Martinez-Corral

doi:10.1117/12.529212

19 November 2003 Apodization in confocal scanning microscopy

Proceedings Volume 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.529212
Event: 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, 2002, Florence, Italy

Abstract

Confocal scanning microscopy is an imaging technique meanly featured by its unique optical sectioning capacity when imaging three-dimensional objects. In this work we improve the axial resolution of these setups by introducing pupil filters with specified amplitude transmittance. Our filter-design procedure, which of course is valid for the nonparaxial regime, is applied to both conventional and 4Pi confocal microscopes.

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Pedro Andres and Manuel Martinez-Corral "Apodization in confocal scanning microscopy", Proc. SPIE 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, (19 November 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.529212

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