• Advanced Photonics
  • Vol. 2, Issue 6, 065002 (2020)
Cheng Zheng1、2, Di Jin3, Yanping He1, Hongtao Lin4, Juejun Hu5, Zahid Yaqoob6, Peter T. C. So2、6、7, and Renjie Zhou1、8、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hong Kong, China
  • 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  • 3Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  • 4Zhejiang University, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Hangzhou, China
  • 5Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  • 6Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laser Biomedical Research Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  • 7Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biological Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  • 8The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering, Hong Kong, China
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    DOI: 10.1117/1.AP.2.6.065002 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Cheng Zheng, Di Jin, Yanping He, Hongtao Lin, Juejun Hu, Zahid Yaqoob, Peter T. C. So, Renjie Zhou. High spatial and temporal resolution synthetic aperture phase microscopy[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2020, 2(6): 065002 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A new optical microscopy technique, termed high spatial and temporal resolution synthetic aperture phase microscopy (HISTR-SAPM), is proposed to improve the lateral resolution of wide-field coherent imaging. Under plane wave illumination, the resolution is increased by twofold to around 260 nm, while achieving millisecond-level temporal resolution. In HISTR-SAPM, digital micromirror devices are used to actively change the sample illumination beam angle at high speed with high stability. An off-axis interferometer is used to measure the sample scattered complex fields, which are then processed to reconstruct high-resolution phase images. Using HISTR-SAPM, we are able to map the height profiles of subwavelength photonic structures and resolve the period structures that have 198 nm linewidth and 132 nm gap (i.e., a full pitch of 330 nm). As the reconstruction averages out laser speckle noise while maintaining high temporal resolution, HISTR-SAPM further enables imaging and quantification of nanoscale dynamics of live cells, such as red blood cell membrane fluctuations and subcellular structure dynamics within nucleated cells. We envision that HISTR-SAPM will broadly benefit research in material science and biology.
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    Cheng Zheng, Di Jin, Yanping He, Hongtao Lin, Juejun Hu, Zahid Yaqoob, Peter T. C. So, Renjie Zhou. High spatial and temporal resolution synthetic aperture phase microscopy[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2020, 2(6): 065002
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