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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2010
Applicants:
Eric Betzig, Leesburg, VA (US);
NA Ji, Leesburg, VA (US);
Inventors:
Eric Betzig, Leesburg, VA (US);
Na Ji, Leesburg, VA (US);
Assignee:
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 5/30 (2006.01); G02B 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Microscopy techniques in which a rear pupil of an optical system is segmented and the segments are individually controlled with a wavefront modulating device to control the direction and phase of individual beamlets of an excitation or emission beam in the optical system, thereby providing an adaptive optics correction to sample and system induced aberrations.