Optical pupil filters for improving optical sectioning property in confocal microscopy

Xiaoqiang Deng; Guiying Wang; Zhizhan Xu

doi:10.1117/12.364406

17 September 1999 Optical pupil filters for improving optical sectioning property in confocal microscopy

Xiaoqiang Deng, Guiying Wang, Zhizhan Xu

Proceedings Volume 3863, 1999 International Conference on Biomedical Optics; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.364406
Event: International Symposium on Biomedical Optics, 1999, Wuhan, China

Abstract

Pupil filters for improving optical sectioning property of confocal microscope are presented. These pupil filters reduce the central lobe of the axial point spread function (PSF), accompanied by a sever increase of strength of the second lobes, which make them impossible to use in conventional imaging systems. While to confocal scanning microscope, an important reduction of the central lobe in axial PSF is achieved with low sidelobe.

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Xiaoqiang Deng, Guiying Wang, and Zhizhan Xu "Optical pupil filters for improving optical sectioning property in confocal microscopy", Proc. SPIE 3863, 1999 International Conference on Biomedical Optics, (17 September 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.364406

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