Digital holographic microscope for 3D imaging and process using it

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7362449
APP PUB NO 20080018966A1
SERIAL NO

10557240

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The present invention is related to a compact microscope able to work in digital holography for obtaining high quality 3D images of samples, including fluorescent samples and relatively thick samples such as biological samples, said microscope comprising illumination means (1,41) at least partially spatially coherent for illuminating a sample (2) to be studied and a differential interferometer (5) for generating interfering beams from said sample (2) on the sensor (33) of an electronic imaging device(7), said interferometer (5) comprising namely tilting means (17) for tilting by a defined angle one the interfering beams (28 or 29) relatively to the other, said tilting resulting into a defined shift (27) of said interfering beam on the sensor of the electronic imaging device (7), said shift (27) being smaller than spatial coherence width of each beam, said microscope being able to be quasi totally preadjusted independently from the samples so that minimum additional adjustments are required for obtaining reliable 3D images of samples.

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  • UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Dubois, Frank Brussels, BE 8 171
Yourassowsky, Catherine Brussels, BE 7 143

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