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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2016
Molecular Devices, Llc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Matthew Chan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Molecular Devices, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
System of, and method for, trans-illumination imaging with use of interference fringes to enhance contrast and/or find focus. In an exemplary method, a coherence of light may be reduced upstream of a sample by scattering and mixing at least a portion of the light. The sample may be irradiated with the light of reduced coherence. An image of the sample may be detected, with the image being created with at least a portion of the light of reduced coherence that has passed through a plane defined by the sample. Image detection may be performed with the sample sufficiently defocused to form interference fringes in the image. The step of reducing a coherence of light may attenuate the interference fringes.