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    • Optics and Photonics
    • Microscopy Techniques
    • Computational Imaging

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    • Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) provides high-resolution optical sectioning.
    • Achieving focus across samples with significant topographical variations remains a challenge in CLSM.
    • Synthetic optical holography offers a method for capturing complex wavefront information.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To demonstrate numerical refocusing in coherent CLSM using synthetic optical holography.
    • To validate a physics-based computational propagation approach for image reconstruction.
    • To explore applications in high-resolution surface profiling of complex samples.

    Main Methods:

    • Implementing computational wave propagation on complex signals from synthetic holography.
    • Acquiring CLSM data at multiple focal plane offsets.
    • Reconstructing in-focus images by correcting for focal aberrations.

    Main Results:

    • Successfully restored an in-focus image of a test object from multi-focal plane data.
    • Demonstrated the feasibility of numerical refocusing in a coherent CLSM setup.
    • Validated the accuracy of the physics-based computational propagation model.

    Conclusions:

    • Numerical refocusing based on synthetic holography is a viable technique for CLSM.
    • This method enables obtaining focused views of samples with large height variations.
    • Potential applications include advanced confocal optical surface profiling.