Planar Airy beam light-sheet for two-photon microscopy

Neveen A. Hosny, James A. Seyforth, Gunnar Spickermann, Thomas J. Mitchell, Pedro Almada, Robert Chesters, Scott J. Mitchell, George Chennell, Anthony C. Vernon, Kwangwook Cho, Deepak P. Srivastava, Robert Forster, Tom Vettenburg (Lead / Corresponding author)

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Abstract

We demonstrate the first planar Airy light-sheet microscope. Fluorescence light-sheet microscopy has become the method of choice to study large biological samples with cellular or sub-cellular resolution. The propagation-invariant Airy beam enables a ten-fold increase in field-of-view with single-photon excitation; however, the characteristic asymmetry of the light-sheet limits its potential for multi-photon excitation. Here we show how a planar light-sheet can be formed from the curved propagation-invariant Airy beam. The resulting symmetric light sheet excites two-photon fluorescence uniformly across an extended field-of-view without the need for deconvolution. We demonstrate the method for rapid two-photon imaging of large volumes of neuronal tissue.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3927-3935
Number of pages9
JournalBiomedical Optics Express
Volume11
Issue number7
Early online date22 Jun 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2020

Keywords

  • physics
  • optics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Biotechnology

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