Liquid lens approaches for simultaneous standard and extended depth of field imaging

Nicolas Olivier (1) , W.T. Mozet (2) , A. Mermillod-Blondin (2) , Emmanuel Beaurepaire (1) , C.B. Arnold (2)

1 LOB - Laboratoire d'optique et biosciences
2 MAE - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering [Princeton]

A tunable acoustic gradient lens is shown to provide depth-of-field switching at kilohertz rates in a nonlinear microscope. We demonstrate two modulation strategies; fast varifocus scanning during each pixel and pseudo-Bessel beam excitation. ©2009 Optical Society of America.

Nicolas Olivier, W.T. Mozet, A. Mermillod-Blondin, Emmanuel Beaurepaire, C.B. Arnold. Liquid lens approaches for simultaneous standard and extended depth of field imaging. Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference: 2010 Laser Science to Photonic Applications, CLEO/QELS 2010, May 2010, San Jose, CA, United States. pp.CThT6, ⟨10.1364/CLEO.2010.CThT6⟩. ⟨hal-00838895⟩