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    • Optical Engineering
    • Biomedical Imaging

    Background:

    • Adaptive optics (AO) offers significant image correction benefits for life-science microscopy.
    • The complexity and cost of conventional AO systems hinder their widespread adoption in microscopy.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To design and evaluate a compact, fully refractive optofluidic wavefront modulator for adaptive optics microscopy.
    • To demonstrate a sensorless AO microscope with performance comparable to traditional systems.

    Main Methods:

    • Development of a compact fluorescence microscope incorporating a refractive optofluidic wavefront modulator.
    • Implementation of a modal sensorless wavefront estimation algorithm using image spatial frequency content.
    • Characterization of aberration correction up to the 4th radial order of Zernike modes.

    Main Results:

    • The optofluidic AO system achieved imaging performance comparable to conventional deformable mirrors in correction fidelity and articulation.
    • A completely in-line adaptive optics microscope was demonstrated, capable of correcting aberrations.
    • The sensorless algorithm effectively utilized image spatial frequency for wavefront estimation.

    Conclusions:

    • A novel, compact, and fully refractive AO microscopy system has been developed.
    • This approach simplifies AO implementation, potentially broadening its use in life-science imaging.
    • The developed AO microscope extends performance limits for advanced biological imaging applications.