MICROSCOPY without lenses
MICROSCOPY without lenses
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DOI:
10.1063/pt.3.3693
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发表时间:
2017-09-01
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
Ozcan, Aydogan
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作者:
McLeod, Euan;Ozcan, Aydogan
Since its invention, the classical optical microscope and its successive variants have generally relied on one key element: the objective lens. The objective lens can be a single or compound lens that typically has a short focal length and large numerical aperture, NA = n sin theta, where n is the refractive index of the medium between the objective lens and the sample, and theta is the maximum acceptance angle of the lens. The short focal length facilitates the incorporation of the objective into an optical system with a large magnification so that microscopic objects can be observed by human eye or with a digital camera. The large numerical aperture of the objective enables a well-designed imaging system to resolve microscopic features down to the classical limit of approximately lambda/2NA for incoherent light, where lambda is the wavelength of the light.