• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 57, Issue 9, 091801 (2020)
Shuochen Zhang and Jihong Feng*
Author Affiliations
  • Intelligent Physiological Measurement and Clinical Translation, Beijing International Base for Scientific and Technological Cooperation, College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100024, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/LOP57.091801 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Shuochen Zhang, Jihong Feng. Effect of Optical System on the Fluorescence Depletion Pattern in the Parallelized STED Microscopy[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(9): 091801 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    In a stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy, a periodically arranged optical lattices is used as fluorescence depletion pattern to achieve parallelized multi-point fluorescence depletion, which can effectively improve the time resolution of imaging. We propose a simple optical system model of microscopic imaging system in parallelized STED microscopy and derive out a formula to illuminate the effect mechanism of tube lens and microscope objective on parallelized fluorescence depletion pattern periodicity in the model. Then we work out the optimum optical parameters which are used to generate a parallelized fluorescence depletion pattern with smaller periodicity from our formula. The numerical simulation result shows that square lattice-like parallelized fluorescence depletion pattern with a periodicity as small as 276 nm× 276 nm was generated with our method.
    Shuochen Zhang, Jihong Feng. Effect of Optical System on the Fluorescence Depletion Pattern in the Parallelized STED Microscopy[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2020, 57(9): 091801
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