6 November 2024 Multi-layer model of cell-waveguide system for highly uniform illumination inside wide bio-optical waveguide fluorescence microscopy
Yu Qiao, Yuanjie Long, Yanjun Hu, Hongru Zhang, Xingang Dai, Yu Ao, Xuanwei Xu, Bowen Niu, Gaoshan Jing, Yuan Li, Guofang Fan
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Abstract

A wider bio-optical waveguide is always desirable for large-field illumination of an optical waveguide microscopy. However, a wider waveguide leads to non-uniform illumination due to non-uniform evanescent field excited by multi-mode interference (MMI) patterns of waveguides. We introduce a seven-layer model of bio-waveguide for optical waveguide microscopy to analyze the waveguide-cell system. We also develop an averaging strategy of MMI pattern images by moving the coupling position to generate uniform illumination inside a wide bio-optical waveguide. Then, we systematically investigate the averaging strategy of MMI pattern images due to wide waveguide, at the wavelengths of 488, 532, and 646 nm. Finally, we demonstrate a 25% uniform improvement by the averaging strategy inside a wide bio-optical waveguide, compared with the conventional strategy.

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Yu Qiao, Yuanjie Long, Yanjun Hu, Hongru Zhang, Xingang Dai, Yu Ao, Xuanwei Xu, Bowen Niu, Gaoshan Jing, Yuan Li, and Guofang Fan "Multi-layer model of cell-waveguide system for highly uniform illumination inside wide bio-optical waveguide fluorescence microscopy," Journal of Nanophotonics 18(4), 046004 (6 November 2024). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.18.046004
Received: 25 June 2024; Accepted: 10 October 2024; Published: 6 November 2024
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KEYWORDS
Waveguides

Light sources and illumination

Refractive index

Brain-machine interfaces

Fluorescence

Fluorescence microscopy

Systems modeling

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