Spectrally encoded confocal microscopy
Optics Letters, Vol. 23, Issue 15, pp. 1152-1154 (1998)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.23.001152
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Abstract
An endoscope-compatible, submicrometer-resolution scanning confocal microscopy imaging system is presented. This approach, spectrally encoded confocal microscopy (SECM), uses a quasi-monochromatic light source and a transmission diffraction grating to detect the reflectivity simultaneously at multiple points along a transverse line within the sample. Since this method does not require fast spatial scanning within the probe, the equipment can be miniaturized and incorporated into a catheter or endoscope. Confocal images of an electron microscope grid were acquired with SECM to demonstrate the feasibility of this technique.
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OCIS Codes
(170.1790) Medical optics and biotechnology : Confocal microscopy
(170.2150) Medical optics and biotechnology : Endoscopic imaging
(170.3880) Medical optics and biotechnology : Medical and biological imaging
(170.4580) Medical optics and biotechnology : Optical diagnostics for medicine
(300.6300) Spectroscopy : Spectroscopy, Fourier transforms
Citation
G. J. Tearney, R. H. Webb, and B. E. Bouma, "Spectrally encoded confocal microscopy," Opt. Lett. 23, 1152-1154 (1998)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-23-15-1152
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