High resolution real-time full-field interference microscopy

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作者
Dubois, A [1 ]
Lebec, M [1 ]
Beaurepaire, E [1 ]
Lévêque, S [1 ]
Boccara, C [1 ]
机构
[1] Ecole Super Phys & Chim Ind, Lab Opt, CNRS, Unite Propre Rech A0005, F-75005 Paris, France
来源
THREE-DIMENSIONAL AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL MICROSCOPY: IMAGE ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING VI, PROCEEDINGS OF | 1999年 / 3605卷
关键词
interference microscopy; optical coherence tomography; CCD camera;
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10.1117/12.347563
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TH742 [显微镜];
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摘要
We have built an interference microscope that produces in real-time images of cross-section slices located at adjustable depths inside 3-D objects. The microscope is based on a Michelson-type polarization interferometer. A light emitting diode (LED), used as an optical source at lambda = 840 nm with short coherence length, provides optical sectioning ability with better than 10 mu m resolution in the depth dimension. By using high numerical aperture objective lenses (NA = 0.95), the depth resolution can be improved to better than 1 mu m, in good agreement with theory. Images can be produced at the rate of 50 per second using a multiplexed lock-in detection and MMX assembler-optimized calculation routines. Cross-section images inside an onion and at different depths in a multilayer silicon integrated circuit are presented.
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