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Published September 29, 2008 | Published
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The application of Fresnel zone plate based projection in optofluidic microscopy

Abstract

Optofluidic microscopy (OFM) is a novel technique for low-cost, high-resolution on-chip microscopy imaging. In this paper we report the use of the Fresnel zone plate (FZP) based projection in OFM as a cost-effective and compact means for projecting the transmission through an OFM's aperture array onto a sensor grid. We demonstrate this approach by employing a FZP (diameter = 255 µm, focal length = 800 µm) that has been patterned onto a glass slide to project the transmission from an array of apertures (diameter = 1 µm, separation = 10 µm) onto a CMOS sensor. We are able to resolve the contributions from 44 apertures on the sensor under the illumination from a HeNe laser (wavelength = 633 nm). The imaging quality of the FZP determines the effective field-of-view (related to the number of resolvable transmissions from apertures) but not the image resolution of such an OFM system -- a key distinction from conventional microscope systems. We demonstrate the capability of the integrated system by flowing the protist Euglena gracilis across the aperture array microfluidically and performing OFM imaging of the samples.

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© 2008 Optical Society of America. Original Manuscript: July 17, 2008. Manuscript Accepted: September 11, 2008. Revised Manuscript: September 6, 2008. Published: September 18, 2008. The authors would like to acknowledge Dr. Xin Heng for helpful discussions. This project is supported by the NSF career award BES-0547657.

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