Adaptive optics can improve the performance of optical systems and devices by correcting phase aberrations. While in most applications wavefront sensing is employed to drive the adaptive optics correction, some microscopy methods may require sensorless optimization of the wavefront. In these cases, the correction is performed by describing the aberration as a linear combination of a base of influence functions, optimizing an image quality metric as a function of the coefficients. The influence functions base is generally chosen to either efficiently represent the adaptive device used or to describe generic wavefronts in an orthogonal fashion. A rarely discussed problem is that most correction bases have elements which introduce, together with a correction of the aberration, a shift of the imaging field of view in three dimensions. While simple methods to solve the problem are available for linear microscopy methods, nonlinear microscopy techniques such as multiphoton or second harmonic generation microscopy require non-trivial base determination. In this paper, we discuss the problem, and we present a method for calibrating a shift-less base on a spatial light modulator for two-photon microscopy.

Experimental determination of shift-less aberration bases for sensorless adaptive optics in nonlinear microscopy / Talone, B.; Pozzi, P.; Cavagnini, M.; Polli, D.; Pozzi, G.; Mapelli, J.. - In: OPTICS EXPRESS. - ISSN 1094-4087. - 29:23(2021), pp. 37617-37627. [10.1364/OE.435262]

Experimental determination of shift-less aberration bases for sensorless adaptive optics in nonlinear microscopy

Mapelli J.
2021

Abstract

Adaptive optics can improve the performance of optical systems and devices by correcting phase aberrations. While in most applications wavefront sensing is employed to drive the adaptive optics correction, some microscopy methods may require sensorless optimization of the wavefront. In these cases, the correction is performed by describing the aberration as a linear combination of a base of influence functions, optimizing an image quality metric as a function of the coefficients. The influence functions base is generally chosen to either efficiently represent the adaptive device used or to describe generic wavefronts in an orthogonal fashion. A rarely discussed problem is that most correction bases have elements which introduce, together with a correction of the aberration, a shift of the imaging field of view in three dimensions. While simple methods to solve the problem are available for linear microscopy methods, nonlinear microscopy techniques such as multiphoton or second harmonic generation microscopy require non-trivial base determination. In this paper, we discuss the problem, and we present a method for calibrating a shift-less base on a spatial light modulator for two-photon microscopy.
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Experimental determination of shift-less aberration bases for sensorless adaptive optics in nonlinear microscopy / Talone, B.; Pozzi, P.; Cavagnini, M.; Polli, D.; Pozzi, G.; Mapelli, J.. - In: OPTICS EXPRESS. - ISSN 1094-4087. - 29:23(2021), pp. 37617-37627. [10.1364/OE.435262]
Talone, B.; Pozzi, P.; Cavagnini, M.; Polli, D.; Pozzi, G.; Mapelli, J.
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