Point-Spread-Function Engineering in MINFLUX: Optimality of Donut and Half-Moon Excitation Patterns
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| author | Liu, Yan Dong, Jonathan Maya, Juan Augusto Balzarotti, Francisco Unser, Michael |
| author_facet | Liu, Yan Dong, Jonathan Maya, Juan Augusto Balzarotti, Francisco Unser, Michael |
| contents | Localization microscopy enables imaging with resolutions that surpass the conventional optical diffraction limit. Notably, the MINFLUX method achieves super-resolution by shaping the excitation point-spread function (PSF) to minimize the required photon flux for a given precision. Various beam shapes have recently been proposed to improve localization efficiency, yet their optimality remains an open question. In this work, we deploy a numerical and theoretical framework to determine optimal excitation patterns for MINFLUX. Such a computational approach allows us to search for new beam patterns in a fast and low-cost fashion, and to avoid time-consuming and expensive experimental explorations. We show that the conventional donut beam is a robust optimum when the excitation beams are all constrained to the same shape. Further, our PSF engineering framework yields two pairs of half-moon beams (orthogonal to each other) which can improve the theoretical localization precision by a factor of about two. |
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| spellingShingle | Point-Spread-Function Engineering in MINFLUX: Optimality of Donut and Half-Moon Excitation Patterns Liu, Yan Dong, Jonathan Maya, Juan Augusto Balzarotti, Francisco Unser, Michael Optics Localization microscopy enables imaging with resolutions that surpass the conventional optical diffraction limit. Notably, the MINFLUX method achieves super-resolution by shaping the excitation point-spread function (PSF) to minimize the required photon flux for a given precision. Various beam shapes have recently been proposed to improve localization efficiency, yet their optimality remains an open question. In this work, we deploy a numerical and theoretical framework to determine optimal excitation patterns for MINFLUX. Such a computational approach allows us to search for new beam patterns in a fast and low-cost fashion, and to avoid time-consuming and expensive experimental explorations. We show that the conventional donut beam is a robust optimum when the excitation beams are all constrained to the same shape. Further, our PSF engineering framework yields two pairs of half-moon beams (orthogonal to each other) which can improve the theoretical localization precision by a factor of about two. |
| title | Point-Spread-Function Engineering in MINFLUX: Optimality of Donut and Half-Moon Excitation Patterns |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03349 |