Abstract
Confocal optical microscopes offer unparalleled high sensitivity and three-dimensional (3D) imaging capability but require slow point-by-point scanning; they are inefficient for imaging moving objects. We propose a more efficient solution. Instead of indiscriminate scanning, we let the focus of the microscope pursue the object of interest such that no time is wasted on uninformative background, allowing us to visualize 3D trajectories of fluorescent nanoparticles in solution with millisecond temporal and ∼200 nm spatial resolution.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2729-2731 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Optics Letters |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 18 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 15 2007 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics