H-PDLC based waveform controllable optical choppers for FDMF microscopy

doi:10.1364/OE.19.002216

H-PDLC based waveform controllable optical choppers for FDMF microscopy

Jihong Zheng, Guoqiang Sun, Yanmeng Jiang, Tingting Wang, Aiqing Huang, Yunbo Zhang, Pingyu Tang, Songlin Zhuang, Yanjun Liu, and Stuart Yin »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 3, pp. 2216-2224 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.002216

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An electrically waveform controllable optical chopper based on holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal grating (H-PDLC) is presented in this paper. The theoretical analyses and experimental results show that the proposed optical chopper has following merits: (1) controllable waveform, (2) no mechanical motion induced vibrational noise, and (3) multiple-channel integration capability. The application of this unique electrically controllable optical chopper to frequency division multiplexed fluorescent microscopy is also addressed in this paper, which has the potential to increase the channel capacity, the stability and the reliability. This will be beneficial to the parallel detection, especially for dynamic studies of living biological samples.

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(090.2890) Holography : Holographic optical elements
(110.0180) Imaging systems : Microscopy
(110.2970) Imaging systems : Image detection systems
(230.2090) Optical devices : Electro-optical devices

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Optical Devices

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Original Manuscript: October 25, 2010
Revised Manuscript: December 15, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: January 14, 2011
Published: January 21, 2011

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Jihong Zheng, Guoqiang Sun, Yanmeng Jiang, Tingting Wang, Aiqing Huang, Yunbo Zhang, Pingyu Tang, Songlin Zhuang, Yanjun Liu, and Stuart Yin, "H-PDLC based waveform controllable optical choppers for FDMF microscopy," Opt. Express 19, 2216-2224 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-19-3-2216

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