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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 22, Issue 17, Pages 20663-20677Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.020663
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We describe a two-beam interference structured illumination fluorescence microscope. The novelty of the presented system lies in its simplicity. A programmable spatial light modulator (ferroelectric LCoS) in an intermediate image plane enables precise and rapid control of the excitation pattern in the specimen. The contrast of the projected light pattern is strongly influenced by the polarization state of the light entering the high NA objective. To achieve high contrast, we use a segmented polarizer. Furthermore, a mask with six holes blocks unwanted components in the spatial frequency spectrum of the illumination grating. Both these passive components serve their purpose in a simpler and almost as efficient way as active components. We demonstrate a lateral resolution of 114.2 +/- 9.5 nm at a frame rate of 7.6 fps per reconstructed 2D slice. (C)2014 Optical Society of America
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