Imaging of birefringent objects in scanning microscopes
- 15 July 1985
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 24 (14), 2081-2084
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.24.002081
Abstract
A method is described whereby the effective detector sensitivity function can be modified in a scanning optical microscope by placing a polarizer in front of a photodetector. The technique relies on the polarizer being placed in a divergent cone of light. The technique is powerful as birefringent information from the specimen may be obtained simultaneously. Examples of amplitude and differential phase contrast images are presented.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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