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| author | Testi, Claudia Pontecorvo, Emanuele Bartoli, Chiara Marzaro, Chiara Gala, Fabrizio Zhang, Li Zanini, Giulia Ruocco, Giancarlo |
| author_facet | Testi, Claudia Pontecorvo, Emanuele Bartoli, Chiara Marzaro, Chiara Gala, Fabrizio Zhang, Li Zanini, Giulia Ruocco, Giancarlo |
| contents | Brillouin Microscopy is a novel label-free optical technique that enables the measurement of a material's mechanical properties at the sub-micron scale in a non-invasive and non-contact way; in the last few years, its applications in the life sciences have extensively expanded. To date, many custom-built Brillouin Microscopes suffer from temporal instabilities that impact their performances, showing drifts in the acquired spectra during time that may lead to inconsistencies between data acquired at different days. A further challenge for standard Brillouin Microscopes is the calibration of the spectrometer: the currently accepted protocol in literature uses known Brillouin shifts of water and methanol to reconstruct the dispersion curve, but this approach is highly influenced by external factors that are unrelated to spectrometer's performances. Manual and frequent realignments of the spectrometer and repeated calibrations with standard materials are thus needed to address these issues. Here, we show an innovative method to remove temporal instabilities of a standard Brillouin Microscope by inserting an Electro-Optic Modulator (EOM) that can be used: i) as a reference signal during measurements; ii) as a calibrator, allowing the reconstruction of the spectrometer dispersion curve with high precision, in an automatic pipeline and without the need for reference samples; iii) as a tool to detect and compensate for temporal drifts through a feedback control in a closed loop. We here show that our Brillouin Microscope, equipped with an EOM and a tuneable laser, is able to automatically acquire data for more than 2 days without the need to realign the spectrometer; retrieved Brillouin shifts and widths showed superior stability in time than standard Brillouin Microscopes. |
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| spellingShingle | Electro-Optic Modulator source as sample-free calibrator and frequency stabilizer for Brillouin Microscopy Testi, Claudia Pontecorvo, Emanuele Bartoli, Chiara Marzaro, Chiara Gala, Fabrizio Zhang, Li Zanini, Giulia Ruocco, Giancarlo Biological Physics Brillouin Microscopy is a novel label-free optical technique that enables the measurement of a material's mechanical properties at the sub-micron scale in a non-invasive and non-contact way; in the last few years, its applications in the life sciences have extensively expanded. To date, many custom-built Brillouin Microscopes suffer from temporal instabilities that impact their performances, showing drifts in the acquired spectra during time that may lead to inconsistencies between data acquired at different days. A further challenge for standard Brillouin Microscopes is the calibration of the spectrometer: the currently accepted protocol in literature uses known Brillouin shifts of water and methanol to reconstruct the dispersion curve, but this approach is highly influenced by external factors that are unrelated to spectrometer's performances. Manual and frequent realignments of the spectrometer and repeated calibrations with standard materials are thus needed to address these issues. Here, we show an innovative method to remove temporal instabilities of a standard Brillouin Microscope by inserting an Electro-Optic Modulator (EOM) that can be used: i) as a reference signal during measurements; ii) as a calibrator, allowing the reconstruction of the spectrometer dispersion curve with high precision, in an automatic pipeline and without the need for reference samples; iii) as a tool to detect and compensate for temporal drifts through a feedback control in a closed loop. We here show that our Brillouin Microscope, equipped with an EOM and a tuneable laser, is able to automatically acquire data for more than 2 days without the need to realign the spectrometer; retrieved Brillouin shifts and widths showed superior stability in time than standard Brillouin Microscopes. |
| title | Electro-Optic Modulator source as sample-free calibrator and frequency stabilizer for Brillouin Microscopy |
| topic | Biological Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20516 |