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Experimental investigation of fibre-optical confocal scanning microscopy: Including a comparison with pinhole detection

✍ Scribed by Min Gu; C.J.R. Sheppard


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
710 KB
Volume
24
Category
Article
ISSN
0968-4328

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✦ Synopsis


Reported in this paper are the experimental results on fibre-optical confocal scanning microscopy (FOCSM). We have performed various measurements in the FOCSM involving axial responses, edge responses, signal levels and interference axial responses in order to demonstrate the differences in confocal scanning imaging between using optical fibres and using pinholes.

Experimentally measured results are compared with our theoretical predictions, revealing good agreements. It is shown convincingly that the FOCSM is a purely coherent imaging system as predicted in our previous theory.