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Study of the Off-Axis Fresnel Zone Plate of a Microscopic Tomographic Aberration
Lin Yang1,2, Zhenyu Ma1, Siqi Liu1,2
1Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Abstract:
A tomographic microscopy system can achieve instantaneous three-dimensional imaging, and this type of microscopy system has been widely used in the study of biological samples; however, existing chromatographic microscopes based on off-axis Fresnel zone plates have degraded image quality due to geometric aberrations such as spherical aberration, coma aberration, and image scattering. This issue hinders the further development of chromatographic microscopy systems. In this paper, we propose a method for the design of an off-axis Fresnel zone plate with the elimination of aberrations based on double exposure point holographic surface interference. The aberration coefficient model of the optical path function was used to solve the optimal recording parameters, and the principle of the aberration elimination tomography microscopic optical path was verified. The simulation and experimental verification were carried out utilizing a Seidel coefficient, average gradient, and signal-to-noise ratio. First, the aberration coefficient model of the optical path function was used to solve the optimal recording parameters. Then, the laminar mi-coroscopy optical system was constructed for the verification of the principle. Finally, the simulation calculation results and the experimental results were verified by comparing the Seidel coefficient, average gradient, and signal-to-noise ratio of the microscopic optical system before and after the aberration elimination. The results show that for the diffractive light at the orders 0 and ±1, the spherical aberration W040 decreases by 62-70%, the coma aberration W131 decreases by 96-98%, the image dispersion W222 decreases by 71-82%, and the field curvature W220 decreases by 96-96%, the average gradient increases by 2.8%, and the signal-to-noise ratio increases by 18%.
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