Abstract
| Language | English |
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| Pages | P1-C/04 |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2014 |
| Event | Focus on Microscopy, FOM 2014 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 13 Apr 2014 → 16 Apr 2014 |
Conference
| Conference | Focus on Microscopy, FOM 2014 |
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| Country | Australia |
| City | Sydney |
| Period | 13/04/14 → 16/04/14 |
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Keywords
- beam measurement
- M-squared
- ellipticity
- multi-photon
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A simple technique for measureing the M2 parameter, optical focus, astigmatism and ellipticity of the light exiting an objective lens in a laser scanning microscope. / Norris, Greg; Wilson, Stuart; Trägårdh, Johanna; Travis, Christopher; Oppo, Gian-Luca; McConnell, Gail.
2014. P1-C/04 Poster session presented at Focus on Microscopy, FOM 2014, Sydney, Australia.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
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T1 - A simple technique for measureing the M2 parameter, optical focus, astigmatism and ellipticity of the light exiting an objective lens in a laser scanning microscope
AU - Norris, Greg
AU - Wilson, Stuart
AU - Trägårdh, Johanna
AU - Travis, Christopher
AU - Oppo, Gian-Luca
AU - McConnell, Gail
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - We report a method for measuring the optical quality of the post-objective laser radiation in a laser scanning microscope. We use a microscopic-scale knife-edge in the form of a simple transmission electron microscopy grid attached to a glass microscope slide and a light-collecting optical fibre and photodiode underneath the specimen. By scanning the laser spot from a reflective to a transmitting part of the grid, an error function measuring the beam can be obtained and by repeating this with the knife-edge at different axial positions relative to the beam waist, the M2 parameter of the post-objective laser beam can be obtained, together with measurements of the size of the optical focus, the ellipticity and the astigmatism of the laser beam exiting the objective lens. This measurement is useful not only for measuring the size of the optical focus, but also for evaluating the beam divergence and thus evaluating how much of the full numerical aperture of the lens is used in practice, which impacts the image quality in confocal and multi-photon microscopy
AB - We report a method for measuring the optical quality of the post-objective laser radiation in a laser scanning microscope. We use a microscopic-scale knife-edge in the form of a simple transmission electron microscopy grid attached to a glass microscope slide and a light-collecting optical fibre and photodiode underneath the specimen. By scanning the laser spot from a reflective to a transmitting part of the grid, an error function measuring the beam can be obtained and by repeating this with the knife-edge at different axial positions relative to the beam waist, the M2 parameter of the post-objective laser beam can be obtained, together with measurements of the size of the optical focus, the ellipticity and the astigmatism of the laser beam exiting the objective lens. This measurement is useful not only for measuring the size of the optical focus, but also for evaluating the beam divergence and thus evaluating how much of the full numerical aperture of the lens is used in practice, which impacts the image quality in confocal and multi-photon microscopy
KW - beam measurement
KW - M-squared
KW - ellipticity
KW - multi-photon
UR - http://www.focusonmicroscopy.org/2014/index.html
M3 - Poster
SP - P1-C/04
ER -