Search Results - "Sheppard, C J R"
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Double-reflection polygon mirror for high-speed optical coherence microscopy
Published in Optics letters (15-12-2007)“…We report on a high-speed, high-efficiency, high-duty-cycle, path-length-maintaining and linear beam scanner suitable for en face scanning optical coherence…”
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Direct calculation of a three-dimensional diffracted field
Published in Optics letters (15-04-2011)“…We present an approach to calculating the complex amplitude of a three-dimensional (3D) diffracted light field in the paraxial approximation based on a 3D…”
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Linear phase imaging using differential interference contrast microscopy
Published in Journal of microscopy (Oxford) (01-04-2004)“…Summary We propose an extension to Nomarski differential interference contrast microscopy that enables isotropic linear phase imaging. The method combines…”
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Superresolution along extended depth of focus with binary-phase filters for the Gaussian beam
Published in Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision (01-08-2008)“…In the paraxial Debye regime, simple and power-efficient pupil filters are designed to break the diffraction limit along a large depth of focus (DOF) for the…”
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Second harmonic generation polarization microscopy with tightly focused linearly and radially polarized beams
Published in Optics communications (15-07-2007)“…Second harmonic generation microscopy was conducted on rat-tail tendons with linearly and radially polarized beams. Transverse and axial field components were…”
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The numerical integration of fundamental diffraction integrals for converging polarized spherical waves using a two-dimensional form of Simpson's 1/3 Rule
Published in Journal of modern optics (20-05-2005)“…A comprehensive matrix method based upon a two-dimensional form of Simpson's 1/3 rule (2DSC method) to integrate numerically the vector form of the fundamental…”
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Design considerations for refractive solid immersion lens: application to subsurface integrated circuit fault localization using laser induced techniques
Published in Review of scientific instruments (01-01-2009)“…With fast scaling and advancement of integrated circuit (IC) technology, circuitries have become smaller and denser. New materials and more sophisticated…”
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Molecular contrast of EGFR expression using gold nanoparticles as a reflectance-based imaging probe
Published in Molecular and cellular probes (01-02-2008)“…Advanced reflectance-based optical techniques for in vivo imaging often suffer from low contrast between neoplastic and normal tissue and are unable to image…”
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The beam propagation factor for higher order Gaussian beams
Published in Optics communications (01-08-1998)“…The beam propagation factor M 2 for coherent, higher-order, single mode beams can be calculated in a number of different ways, for example directly from…”
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Characterising elegant and standard Hermite–Gaussian beam modes
Published in Optics communications (08-05-2001)“…Two tool parameters, the beam propagation factor M 2 and kurtosis factor k, are used to analyse solutions of the paraxial scalar wave equation (for rectangular…”
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Near field and far field of elegant Hermite-Gaussian and Laguerre-Gaussian modes
Published in Journal of modern optics (01-10-1998)“…An alternative set of eigensolutions of the paraxial wave equation to that of the ordinary Hermite-Gaussian modes is that of the so-called 'elegant'…”
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Effects of high angles of convergence on V ( z ) in the scanning acoustic microscope
Published in Applied physics letters (01-01-1981)“…An investigation is made of the effects of using high numerical aperture acoustic lenses on the V(z) respsonse in acoustic microscopy. Theoretical results are…”
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Efficient calculation of electromagnetic diffraction in optical systems using a multipole expansion
Published in Journal of modern optics (01-04-1997)“…The field distribution in the focal region of a high-aperture optical system is calculated using an expansion into multipole components. For any angular…”
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Effect of a confocal pinhole in two-photon microscopy
Published in Microscopy research and technique (01-11-1999)“…We investigated the effect of a finite‐sized confocal pinhole on the performance of nonlinear optical microscopes based on two‐photon excited fluorescence and…”
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Evanescent fields do contribute to the far field (1999, J. mod. Optics, 46, 729)
Published in Journal of modern optics (01-01-2001)“…In a series of papers, Xiao has described a decomposition of the electric field of an electric dipole into homogeneous and evanescent components. Although the…”
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Integrated intensity and confocal imaging through scattering media
Published in Journal of modern optics (01-07-2001)“…It is shown how the integrated intensity, discussed previously elsewhere, can be used to investigate in a simple way, the process of confocal imaging though a…”
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Fourier imaging of phase information in scanning and conventional optical microscopes
Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (07-02-1980)“…The imaging performance of scanning microscopes may be improved by introducing a pinhole in the detector plane, thus forming a confocal (or type 2) scanning…”
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Optical microscopy with extended depth of field
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and physical sciences (09-05-1983)“…A method is described that allows the depth of field in optical microscopy to be extended, in principle without limit, while high-resolution,…”
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Focal distributions and Hertz potentials
Published in Optics communications (15-02-1999)“…The three-dimensional (3D) pupil function for a high-aperture focusing system can be expressed in terms of Hertz or Debye potentials. The electromagnetic field…”
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Fresnel coefficients for weak reflection, and the scattering potential for three-dimensional imaging
Published in Optics communications (15-04-1999)“…The Fresnel coefficients for reflection from a planar interface between two dielectrics are investigated for the case when the change in refractive index is…”
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