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SUBMITTER: Di Domenico G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6249239 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Di Domenico Giuseppe G Ruocco Giancarlo G Colosi Cristina C DelRe Eugenio E Antonacci Giuseppe G
Scientific reports 20181121 1
An ideal illumination for light sheet fluorescence microscopy entails both a localized and a propagation invariant optical field. Bessel beams and Airy beams satisfy these conditions, but their non-diffracting feature comes at the cost of the presence of high-energy side lobes that notably degrade the imaging contrast and induce photobleaching. Here, we demonstrate the use of a light droplet illumination whose side lobes are suppressed by interfering Bessel beams of specific k-vectors. Our dropl ...[more]