Title :
Liquid lens approaches for simultaneous standard and extended depth of field imaging
Author :
Olivier, Nicolas ; Mozet, William T. ; Mermillod-Blondin, Alexandre ; Beaurepaire, Emmanuel ; Arnold, Craig B.
Abstract :
A tunable acoustic gradient lens is shown to provide depth-of-field switching at kilohertz rates in a nonlinear microscope. We demonstrate two modulation strategies; fast varifocus scanning during each pixel and pseudo-Bessel beam excitation.
Keywords :
adaptive optics; lenses; optical images; depth of field imaging; depth-of-field switching; liquid lens; nonlinear microscope; pseudo-Bessel beam excitation; tunable acoustic gradient lens; varifocus scanning; Acoustic beams; Biomedical optical imaging; Lenses; Microscopy; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical modulation; Optical refraction; Optical sensors; Technical Activities Guide -TAG;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
