摘要:
The invention relates to a method for the dimensional characterization of a structured material, in which method : an excitation laser beam suitable for coherent nonlinear microscopy is generated, this excitation laser beam being focused in a focal volume within the structured material; signals emitted by the structured material are detected; a plurality of emission patterns, each corresponding to one particular shape of the focal volume, is produced, the particular shapes being obtained for various non-Gaussian spatial profiles of the excitation laser beam wavefront; and on the basis of the emission patterns thus produced, dimensional characteristics of said structured material are deduced therefrom.
摘要:
The present invention concerns a multicolour excitation module 1 for a multiphoton imaging system 100. Such a module is used for imaging a sample 7 comprising at least three chromophores. The module 1 comprises: a first femtosecond laser source 2, emitting a first excitation beam 20; a second femtosecond laser source 3 emitting a second excitation beam 30. The first excitation beam 20 comprises a so-called "pumping" portion, said pumping portion acting as a pump beam to synchronously excite the second laser source 3, and a so-called "excitation" portion. An optical delay line 4 is arranged to spatially and temporally superpose the second excitation beam 30 and the excitation portion of the first excitation beam, so as to excite at least a third of the chromophores by multiphoton absorption, said absorbed photons coming from the first and second excitation beams 20, 30. The invention also concerns the complete multiphoton imaging system 100, and a method implemented in this module 1.
摘要:
The invention relates to a nonlinear optical microscope using a Bessel laser beam so as to image a sample with good lateral resolution and extended field depth. This microscope incorporates a slide scanner. The sample is disposed on a slide, which is loaded automatically onto a motorized platen, so that the laser beam can sweep the entire slide. The useful signals originating from the sample are combined with the conventional image of the slide scanner so as to obtain a global image which clearly reveals, with good resolution, elements of interest.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method and a system for calibrating an optical device having a spatial optical modulator (6) and comprising: an optical lens (8) of a large numerical aperture, capable of receiving an incident beam and/or collecting an optical beam reflected by a sample; a camera (14) disposed in a plane optically conjugate with the focal plane of the lens (8); and a spatial optical modulator (6) disposed on the optical beam upstream of the camera (14). According to the invention, the method includes the following steps consisting in: acquiring three-dimensional images of the PSF in terms of intensity in a plane conjugate with the focal plane of the lens (8), reconstructing the profile in terms of amplitude and/or phase of the beam using a phase diversity algorithm, and determining the respective influence functions of a plurality of elements P 1 ,..., P N of the spatial optical modulator (6) on the profile in terms of the amplitude A and/or phase ϕ of the beam.