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    • Optics and Photonics
    • Biomedical Imaging
    • Microscopy

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    • Optical aberrations degrade image quality in multiphoton microscopy.
    • Adaptive optics (AO) systems can correct these aberrations.
    • Wavefront sensorless AO offers a simpler implementation by avoiding direct wavefront measurement.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To implement a model-based wavefront sensorless adaptive optics system for aberration correction.
    • To improve image quality in a second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscope.
    • To demonstrate aberration correction using a deformable mirror (DM) and an image quality metric.

    Main Methods:

    • Implemented a model-based aberration correction algorithm in an SHG microscope.
    • Utilized a deformable mirror (DM) as the wavefront shaping device.
    • Modeled the image quality metric using a quadratic polynomial derived from experimental data.
    • Removed tip, tilt, and defocus aberrations from DM control basis functions.
    • Maximized the image quality metric using least-squares estimation for aberration correction.

    Main Results:

    • Successfully corrected optical aberrations in the SHG microscope.
    • Demonstrated the effectiveness of model-based wavefront sensorless AO.
    • Achieved improved image quality through aberration correction.
    • Validated the use of a quadratic polynomial model for the image quality metric.

    Conclusions:

    • Model-based wavefront sensorless adaptive optics is an effective method for aberration correction in multiphoton microscopy.
    • This technique can be implemented with minimal hardware additions (DM).
    • The developed algorithm enhances image quality and resolution in SHG microscopy.