Design and Applications of Optical Microscopes
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optoelectronics and Optical Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2024) | Viewed by 1926
Special Issue Editors
Interests: light field regulation; scattering medium; wavefront regulation; memory effect; digital holography
Interests: optical microscopes; light field regulation through complex media; construction and application of a novel structured light field
Interests: optical microscopy; computational imaging; biophotonics; deep learning; compressive sensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As a commonly employed tool in life science and biomedical research, optical microscopy possesses a number of advantages, such as a high resolution, high sensitivity with a wealth of contrast mechanisms, and low damage impacts on the samples. Various optical system designs have promoted great advances in optical imaging, and structural and functional imaging could now be achieved at a high time–space scale.
For application in life science exploration, timely disease diagnosis and superior treatment, optical microscopy has been developed, on the one hand, for achieving deeper analysis with high temporal and spatial resolutions. On the other hand, optical microscopy has been designed to be more controllable, compact and smart for use. Controlling both the illumination and portion of the detection system have been established to enhance the imaging capacity. With the rapid development of optoelectronic technologies, metasurfaces, fiber optics, computing imaging and artificial intelligence, the performance of optical microscopy has been expanded.
This Special Issue focuses on original state-of-the-art research on optical microscopy and its applications. Both original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Confocal microscopy;
- Adaptive optics in optical microscopy;
- Fiber-based endoscopy;
- Metasurfaces for microscopy;
- Spatial light modulation and PSF engineering for microscopy
Dr. Runze Li
Dr. Qian Zhao
Dr. Chen Bai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical imaging
- microscopy
- confocal
- adaptive optics
- fiber optics
- metasurfaces
- PSF engineering
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