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AUTHOR
Hui Yun
Practical guide for setting up a Fourier light-field microscope, Appl. Opt. 62, 4228 (2023)
Apractical guide for the easy implementation of a Fourier light-field microscope is reported. The Fourier light-field concept applied to microscopy allows the capture in real time of a series of 2D orthographic images of microscopic thick dynamic samples. Such perspective images contain spatial and angular information of the light-field emitted by the sample.Afeature of this technology is the tight requirement of a double optical conjugation relationship, and also the requirement of NA matching. For these reasons, the Fourier light-field microscope being a non-complex optical system, a clear protocol on howto set up the optical elements accurately is needed. In this sense, this guide is aim…
Three-dimensional imaging system with both improved lateral resolution and depth of field considering non-uniform system parameters
In this paper, we propose a new 3D passive image sensing and visualization technique to improve lateral resolution and depth of field (DoF) of integral imaging simultaneously. There is a resolution trade-off between lateral resolution and DoF in integral imaging. To overcome this issue, a large aperture and a small aperture can be used to record the elemental images to reduce the diffraction effect and extend the DoF, respectively. Therefore, in this paper, we utilize these two pickup concepts with a non-uniform camera array. To show the feasibility of our proposed method, we implement an optical experiment. For comparison in details, we calculate the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) as th…
Handheld and cost-effective Fourier lightfield microscope
In this work, the design, building, and testing of the most portable, easy-to-build, robust, handheld, and cost-effective Fourier Lightfield Microscope (FLMic) to date is reported. The FLMic is built by means of a surveillance camera lens and additional off-the-shelf optical elements, resulting in a cost-effective FLMic exhibiting all the regular sought features in lightfield microscopy, such as refocusing and gathering 3D information of samples by means of a single-shot approach. The proposed FLMic features reduced dimensions and light weight, which, combined with its low cost, turn the presented FLMic into a strong candidate for in-field application where 3D imaging capabilities are pursu…