Beating Temporal Phase Sensitivity Limit in Off-axis Interferometry based Quantitative Phase Microscopy

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Autores principales: Nie, Yujie, Zhou, Renjie
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author Nie, Yujie
Zhou, Renjie
author_facet Nie, Yujie
Zhou, Renjie
contents Phase sensitivity determines the lowest optical path length (OPL) value that can be detected from the noise floor in a quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) system. The temporal phase sensitivity is known to be limited by both photon shot-noise and a variety of noise sources from electronic devices and environment. To beat temporal phase sensitivity limit, we explore different ways to reduce different noise factors in off-axis interferometry-based QPM using laser-illumination. Using a high electron-well-capacity camera, we measured the temporal phase sensitivity values using non-common-path and common-path interferometry based QPM systems under different environmental conditions. A frame summing method and a spatiotemporal filtering method are further used to reduce the noise contributions, thus enabling us to push the overall temporal phase sensitivity to less than 2 picometers.
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spellingShingle Beating Temporal Phase Sensitivity Limit in Off-axis Interferometry based Quantitative Phase Microscopy
Nie, Yujie
Zhou, Renjie
Quantitative Methods
Biological Physics
Optics
Phase sensitivity determines the lowest optical path length (OPL) value that can be detected from the noise floor in a quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) system. The temporal phase sensitivity is known to be limited by both photon shot-noise and a variety of noise sources from electronic devices and environment. To beat temporal phase sensitivity limit, we explore different ways to reduce different noise factors in off-axis interferometry-based QPM using laser-illumination. Using a high electron-well-capacity camera, we measured the temporal phase sensitivity values using non-common-path and common-path interferometry based QPM systems under different environmental conditions. A frame summing method and a spatiotemporal filtering method are further used to reduce the noise contributions, thus enabling us to push the overall temporal phase sensitivity to less than 2 picometers.
title Beating Temporal Phase Sensitivity Limit in Off-axis Interferometry based Quantitative Phase Microscopy
topic Quantitative Methods
Biological Physics
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11477