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Measurement of the three-dimensional microscope point spread function using a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor.
Journal of Microscopy 2002 January
We present a technique to measure the wavefront in the exit pupil of a microscope to determine the microscope's three-dimensional point spread function (PSF) experimentally. The wavefront yields the microscope PSF through a Fourier transform that models propagation of light from the exit pupil to the image plane. A Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor is used to measure the wavefront shape by recording lateral displacements of a grid of focused spots created by a lenslet array. The displacement of each spot is related to the local wavefront slope. Thus, with appropriate sampling across the exit pupil, the entire wavefront can be reconstructed. This technique does not require the use of a sub-resolution object to obtain the three-dimensional microscope PSF. Consequently, larger, brighter fluorescent objects may be imaged, thereby reducing the requirements for detector sensitivity and leading to a three-fold increase in the axial range over which the PSF is measured. The Shack-Hartmann technique results in a description of the PSF as a continuous function whose sampling is not dependent on the size of the CCD pixels. The Shack-Hartmann sensor is not limited by the numerical aperture of the objective and can easily be calibrated to measure the PSF at any wavelength.
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