Correction of error motion in a line-scanning tomographic optical microscope

A line-scanning tomographic optical microscope system requires precise rotation of the scanning line. Center of rotation error introduced by both the imprecision of optical and mechanical components is studied experimentally and via simulations. It was shown that a practical tolerance limit can be c...

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Published in:Applied optics (2004) 2012-09, Vol.51 (26), p.6319-6324
Main Authors: Dudas, L, Gajdatsy, G, Sinko, J, Erdelyi, M, Szabo, G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Diffraction
Error analysis
Mechanical components
Optical microscopes
Scanning
Simulation
Tolerances
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Summary:A line-scanning tomographic optical microscope system requires precise rotation of the scanning line. Center of rotation error introduced by both the imprecision of optical and mechanical components is studied experimentally and via simulations. It was shown that a practical tolerance limit can be chosen where the influence of the investigated error on the reconstructed image quality remains insignificant. An effective and simply practical solution was presented to keep the center of rotation error below this tolerance limit and the spatial resolution of the reconstructed image close to the diffraction limit.
ISSN:1559-128X
2155-3165
DOI:10.1364/AO.51.006319