• 제목/요약/키워드: Two-photon microscope

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High-speed Two-photon Laser Scanning Microscopy Imaging of in vivo Blood Cells in Rapid Circulation at Velocities of Up to 1.2 Millimeters per Second

  • Boutilier, Richard M.;Park, Jae Sung;Lee, Ho
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • 제2권6호
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    • pp.595-605
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    • 2018
  • The two-photon process of microscopy provides good spatial resolution and optical sectioning ability when observing quasi-static endogenous fluorescent tissue within an in vivo animal model skin. In order to extend the use of such systems, we developed a two-photon laser scanning microscopy system capable of also capturing $512{\times}512$ pixel images at 90 frames per second. This was made possible by incorporating a 72 facet polygon mirror which was mounted on a 55 kRPM motor to enhance the fast-scan axis speed in the horizontal direction. Using the enhanced temporal resolution of our high-speed two-photon laser scanning microscope, we show that rapid processes, such as fluorescently labeled erythrocytes moving in mouse blood flow at up to 1.2 mm/s, can be achieved.

고속 트립토판 자가형광 이미징을 위한 시공간적 집중 기반의 라인 스캐닝 이광자 현미경 개발 (Development of line-scanning two-photon microscopy based on spatial and temporal focusing for tryptophan based auto fluorescence imaging)

  • 이준호;남효석;김기현
    • 한국가시화정보학회지
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    • 제11권2호
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    • pp.41-45
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    • 2013
  • Two-photon microscopy (TPM) is minimally-invasive 3D fluorescence microscopy based on nonlinear excitation, and TPM can visualize cellular structures based on auto-fluorescence. Line-scanning TPM is one of high-speed TPM methods without sacrificing the image resolution by using spatial and temporal focusing. In this paper, we developed line-scanning TPM based on spatial and temporal focusing for auto-fluorescence imaging by exciting the tryptophan. Laser source for this system was an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) and it made near 570 nm femtosecond pulse laser. It had 200fs pulse width and 1.72 nm bandwidth, so that the achievable depth resolution was 2.41um and field of view (FOV) is 10.8um. From the characterization, our system has 3.0 um depth resolution and 12.3 um FOV. We visualized fixed leukocyte cell sample and compared with point scanning system.

광섬유 다발을 이용한 다초점 현미경 (Multi-focal Microscopic System Using a Fiber Bundle)

  • 구영모;함효식;최성을
    • 한국광학회지
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    • 제20권6호
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    • pp.354-360
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    • 2009
  • 공초점 현미경 중 하나로 각광받는 MMM(multi-focal multi-photon microscope)의 핵심부분인 미세렌즈 배열판을 광섬유 다발로 대체한 간단한 형태의 광섬유 다발 다초점 현미경을 구성하여 그 성능을 분석하였다. 이 현미경의 성능 분석을 위하여 세 종류의 시료를 사용하였으며, 두 개의 편광판과 편광 빔 분리기를 사용하여 노이즈를 제거한 뚜렷한 상을 얻을 수 있었다. 표준격자 시료를 사용하여 1차 대물렌즈의 배율을 63배와 20배로 달리하면서 광점 상의 FWHM를 구하였고, 광점 상들의 분포 속에서 물체의 상을 볼 수 있었으며, 분포가 조밀한 저배율의 1차 대물렌즈를 사용할 경우에 보다 선명한 시료의 상을 얻을 수 있었다. 광섬유 다발 다초점 현미경의 분해능을 시험하기 위해서 표준격자 시료보다 격자 간격이 작은 USAF 1951을 시료로 사용하여 상을 측정하여 얻은 시료 상의 FWHM와 주어진 시료의 선폭 값이 서로 잘 일치함을 볼 수 있었다. 광섬유 다발 다초점 현미경은 1개의 광섬유 다발을 사용함으로써 시스템을 간소화시켰고, 마이크론 이하의 분해능을 가지며, 광섬유의 개수인 1600개의 광점 상을 동시에 얻을 수 있었다.

The Optical Design of Probe-type Microscope Objective for Intravital Laser Scanning CARS Microendoscopy

  • Rim, Cheon-Seog
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • 제14권4호
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    • pp.431-437
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    • 2010
  • A stack of gradient-index (GRIN) rod lenses cannot be used for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microendoscopy for insertion to internal organs through a surgical keyhole with minimal invasiveness. That's because GRIN lens has large amount of inherent chromatic aberrations in spite of absolutely requiring a common focus for pump and Stokes beam with each frequency of ${\omega}_p$ and ${\omega}_S$. For this endoscopic purpose, we need to develop a long slender probe-type objective, namely probe-type microscope objective (PMO). In this paper, we introduce the structure, the working principle, and the design techniques of PMO which is composed of a probe-type lens module (PLM) and an adaptor lens module (ALM). PLM is first designed for a long slender type and ALM is successively designed by using several design parameters from PLM for eliminating optical discords between scanning unit and PLM. A combined module is optimized again to eliminate some coupling disparities between PLM and ALM for the best PMO. As a result, we can obtain a long slender PMO with perfectly diffraction-limited performance for pump beam of 817 nm and Stokes beam of 1064 nm.

Reduction of Current Crowding in InGaN-based Blue Light-Emitting Diodes by Modifying Metal Contact Geometry

  • Kim, Garam;Kim, Jang Hyun;Park, Euyhwan;Park, Byung-Gook
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • 제14권5호
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    • pp.588-593
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    • 2014
  • Current crowding problem can worsen the internal quantum efficiency and the negative-voltage ESD of InGaN-based LEDs. In this paper, by using photon emission microscope and thermal emission microscope measurement, we confirmed that the electric field and the current of the InGaN-based LED sample are crowded in specific regions where the distance between p-type metal contact and n-type metal contact is shorter than other regions. To improve this crowding problem of electric field and current, modified metal contact geometry having uniform distance between the two contacts is proposed and verified by a numerical simulation. It is confirmed that the proposed structure shows better current spreading, resulting in higher internal quantum efficiency and reduced reverse leakage current.

Diffusion Coefficients of CdSe/CdS Quantum Rods in Water Measured Using Polarized Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

  • Lee, Jaeran;Pack, Chan-Gi;Kim, Soo Yong;Kim, Sok Won
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • 제18권5호
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    • pp.598-604
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    • 2014
  • A polarization fluorescence correlation spectroscopy system based on a confocal microscope was built to study the rotational and translational diffusion of CdSe/CdS quantum rods (Q-rods), with the same and different polarization states between the polarizer and the analyzer (i.e. the XXX and XYY states). The rotational diffusion amplitude showed the dependences on polarization of $0.75{\pm}0.05$ in the XXX state and $0.26{\pm}0.03$ in the XYY state, when the translational diffusion amplitude was 1. The diffusion coefficients of the Q-rods were found based on their translational and rotational diffusion times in the two polarization states, in solutions with viscosity ranging from 0.9 to 6.9 cP. The translational and rotational diffusion coefficients ranged from $1.5{\times}10^{-11}$ to $2.6{\times}10^{-12}m^2s^{-1}$ and from $2.9{\times}10^5$ to $5.6{\times}10^4s^{-1}$, respectively.

Fiber Optics for Multilayered Optical Memory

  • Kawata, Yoshimasa;Tsuji, Masatoshi;Inami, Wataru
    • 정보저장시스템학회논문집
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.53-59
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    • 2011
  • We have developed a compact and high-power mode-locked fiber laser for multilayered optical memory. Fiber lasers have the potential to be compact and stable light sources that can replace bulk solid-state lasers. To generate high-power pulses, we used stretched-pulse mode locking. The average power and pulse width of the output pulse from the fiber laser that we developed were 109 mW and 2.1 ps, respectively. The dispersion of the output pulse was compensated with an external single-mode fiber of 2.5 m length. The pulse was compressed from 2.1 ps to 93 fs by dispersion compensation. The fiber laser we have developed is possible to use as a light source of multilayered optical memory. We also present a fiber confocal microscope as an alignment-free readout system of multilayered optical memories. The fiber confocal microscope does not require fine pinhole position alignment because the fiber core is used as the point light source and the pinhole, and both of which are always located at the conjugated point. The configuration reduces the required accuracy of pinhole position alignment. With these techniques we can present an all-fiber recording and readout system for multilayered memories.

모드잠김 이터븀 광섬유 레이저를 이용한 이광자 현미경 구현 (Construction of Two-Photon Microscope by using Mode-Locked $Yb^{3+}$ doped Fiber Laser)

  • 김동욱;송호성;송우섭;김덕영
    • 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국광학회 2009년도 창립 20주년기념 특별학술발표회
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    • pp.235-236
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    • 2009
  • 파장이 길고 에너지가 낮은 근적외선 영역 광자 두 개를 동시에 여기했다가 형광으로 방출하는 비선형 현상을 이용한 이광자 현미경은 살아있는 세포를 넘어 생체조직 깊은 곳에서 일어나는 생물학적 변화 관찰 및 3차원 이미지 해석이 가능한 매우 효과적인 장비이다. 그러나 상용화된 이광자 현미경은 매우 고가이고 응용의 다양성을 위한 구조적 변형이 매우 힘들다. 본 논문에서는 모드잠김 이터븀 광섬유 레이저를 이용하여 비용 효율이 높고 다루기 쉬운 이광자 현미경을 구현 하고자 한다.

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