A Real-Time Confocal Scanning Optical Microscope

G. Q. Xiao; G. S. Kino

doi:10.1117/12.941505

3 August 1987 A Real-Time Confocal Scanning Optical Microscope

G. Q. Xiao, G. S. Kino

Proceedings Volume 0809, Scanning Imaging Technology; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.941505
Event: Fourth International Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Sciences and Engineering, 1987, The Hague, Netherlands

Abstract

A new type of real-time confocal scanning optical microscope, with the same measured resolution as a conventional confocal scanning optical microscope, is described. The system uses a rotating Nipkow disk with 150,000 pinholes etched in it, to yield a 640 frame/sec, 7000-line image. The transverse definition is of the order of 0.3 μm, and the 3 dB range resolution, with a 0.8 N.A. objective lens, is better than 0.75 μm.

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G. Q. Xiao and G. S. Kino "A Real-Time Confocal Scanning Optical Microscope", Proc. SPIE 0809, Scanning Imaging Technology, (3 August 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.941505

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