{"title":"Optical microscope with nanometer longitudinal resolution based on a Linnik interferometer","authors":"Sergei V Anishchik and Marcos Dantus","doi":"10.1088/2040-8986/ad77e3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A widefield microscope based on a Linnik interferometer was designed, constructed, and tested. The phase-shifting and polarized single-shot methods were used to measure interference patterns. Both methods use a low-coherence light-emitting diode as the light source, achieving a resolution of 10 nm in the Z direction and diffraction-limited resolution in the X and Y directions. The single-shot method is vibration-insensitive, allowing for the observation of moving objects. The simplicity and low cost of this instrument make it valuable for a wide range of applications.","PeriodicalId":16775,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Optics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Optics","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8986/ad77e3","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"OPTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A widefield microscope based on a Linnik interferometer was designed, constructed, and tested. The phase-shifting and polarized single-shot methods were used to measure interference patterns. Both methods use a low-coherence light-emitting diode as the light source, achieving a resolution of 10 nm in the Z direction and diffraction-limited resolution in the X and Y directions. The single-shot method is vibration-insensitive, allowing for the observation of moving objects. The simplicity and low cost of this instrument make it valuable for a wide range of applications.
期刊介绍:
Journal of Optics publishes new experimental and theoretical research across all areas of pure and applied optics, both modern and classical. Research areas are categorised as:
Nanophotonics and plasmonics
Metamaterials and structured photonic materials
Quantum photonics
Biophotonics
Light-matter interactions
Nonlinear and ultrafast optics
Propagation, diffraction and scattering
Optical communication
Integrated optics
Photovoltaics and energy harvesting
We discourage incremental advances, purely numerical simulations without any validation, or research without a strong optics advance, e.g. computer algorithms applied to optical and imaging processes, equipment designs or material fabrication.