Abstract

In this Letter, we present a holography-based structured light illumination (SLI) method to enhance the resolution of widefield temporal focusing microscopy (TFM). In the system, a digital micromirror device is employed to simultaneously disperse the incoming femtosecond laser to induce temporal focusing at the focal plane and generate designed structured patterns via a Lee hologram. As the generated structured patterns do not contain the zeroth order beam, it improves the contrast and modulation frequency. Mathematical models have been derived to calculate the electric fields at the focal plane and to explain the effects of improved optical cross-sectioning capability. Imaging experiments have been devised and performed on fluorescent beads and mouse kidney sections; the results demonstrate enhanced axial confinement and improved suppression of out-of-focus fluorescence. The new SLI method realizes high-resolution TFM and can be readily applied to other microscopy platforms for biophotonics applications.

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