Optical Imaging and Microscopy

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This text on contemporary optical systems is intended for optical researchers and engineers, graduate students and optical microscopists in the biological and biomedical sciences. It consists of three parts: The first discusses high-aperture optical systems, which form the backbone of optical microscopes. Here particular attention is paid to optical data storage. The second part is on the use of non-linear optical techniques, including non-linear optical excitation (second and third harmonic generation and two-photon microscopy) and non-linear spectroscopy (CARS). The final part of the book presents miscellaneous techniques that are either novel or well known but finding new applications. An example of the latter is adaptive optics, which is a well-established method, for example, in astronomy. However, its application in eye imaging in combination with high power pulsed lasers, opens a novel approach to eye surgery.
The motivation to collect contributions from a wide variety of subjects in cont- porary optics, centered around optical imaging, originates from two ideas. First, it is easy to recognise that certain ?elds of contemporary optics have been devel- ing in quite a parallel manner. Sometimes workers of the di?erent ?elds discover each other’s contributions, but mostly they do not. One of our major goals is to show how closely these contributions are inter-related. Such an example is the - velopment of scanning/confocal optical microscopy and optical data storage. In the former, imaging in the classical sense, occurs by scanning a tightly focused laser beam over the sample. In optical data storage imaging does not occur as the aim is to detect pits, rather than to image them. Nevertheless, the optical systems of these two arrangements have striking resemblance and hence their governing equations are practically the same. The second motivation of this book is to collect contri- tions from imaging related subjects that were not previously published in this form or they are di?cult to access. Such examples are a chapter on white light interfer- etry, surface plasmon microscopy or the characterisation of high numerical aperture microscope objective lenses. We are extremely pleased that we have contributions in this book from the - ternational leaders of individual ?elds. It has been our privilege to work with these authors and we would like to take this opportunity to thank them all.

Contributing authors are unquestioned leaders of their respective fields

Represents a unique compilation of valuable and novel scientific work that is scarcely to be found elsewhere

Draws together the fields of optical microscopy and optical data storage

Through a parallel presentation of diverse developments in optical imaging, this volume is intended for optical researchers and engineers, graduate students and optical microscopists in the biological and biomedical sciences. The contributions emphasize common themes, such as optical data storage and imaging. The book consists of three parts: a discussion high-aperture optical systems, which form the backbone of optical microscopes; the use of non-linear optical techniques, including non-linear optical excitation (second and third harmonic generation and two-photon microscopy) and non-linear spectroscopy (CARS); and, finally, techniques that are either novel or well known but finding new applications, such as adaptive optics. Already used widely in astronomy, adative optics is being applied to eye surgery in combination with high-power pulsed lasers. 

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