Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 9, Issue 12, 120002(2011)

Reflective point-dif fraction microscopic interferometer with long-term stability (Invited Paper)

Rongli Guo, Baoli Yao, Peng Gao, Junwei Min, Juanjuan Zheng, and Tong Ye

An on-axis phase-shifting reflective point-diffraction microscopic interferometer for quantitative phase microscopy based on Michelson architecture is proposed. A cube beamsplitter splits the object wave spectrum into two copies within two arms. Reference wave is rebuilt in one arm by low-pass filtering on the object wave frequency spectrum with a pinhole-mask mirror, and interferes with the object wave from the other arm. Polarization phase-shifting is performed and phase imaging on microscale specimens is implemented. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme has the advantage of long-term stability due to its quasi common-path geometry with full use of laser energy.

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Rongli Guo, Baoli Yao, Peng Gao, Junwei Min, Juanjuan Zheng, Tong Ye. Reflective point-dif fraction microscopic interferometer with long-term stability (Invited Paper)[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2011, 9(12): 120002

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Category: Measurement

Received: Aug. 1, 2011

Accepted: Nov. 18, 2011

Published Online: Dec. 15, 2011

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DOI:10.3788/col201109.120002

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