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SUBMITTER: Redding B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4217487 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Optics letters 20140801 15
We present an interferometric confocal microscope using an array of 1200 vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) coupled to a multimode fiber. Spatial coherence gating provides ~18,000 continuous virtual pinholes, allowing an entire en face plane to be imaged in a snapshot. This approach maintains the same optical sectioning as a scanning confocal microscope without moving parts, while the high power of the VCSEL array (∼5 mW per laser) enables high-speed image acquisition with integra ...[more]