Improving the Energy Efficiency of Diffraction Optical Elements for 3D Nanoscopy


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Abstract

A way of improving the energy efficiency of diffraction optical elements (DOEs) that form two-lobe light fields whose intensity distribution rotates in propagation is studied. Such DOEs find application in ultrahigh resolution microscopy to modify the spread function of a point light source via phase spatial light beam modulation, allowing all three spatial coordinates of point emitting objects to be reconstructed with nanometric accuracy. Enhancing the energy efficiency of diffraction optical elements is essential for improving the accuracy of point emitter localization in the longitudinal direction (along the Z-axis).

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D. V. Prokopova

Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; Samara National Research University

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Email: prokopovadv@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Samara, 443011; Samara, 443011

E. N. Vorontsov

Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: prokopovadv@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Samara, 443011

S. P. Kotova

Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: prokopovadv@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Samara, 443011

N. N. Losevsky

Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: prokopovadv@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Samara, 443011

S. A. Samagin

Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: prokopovadv@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Samara, 443011

I. T. Mynzhasarov

Moscow Physicotechnical Institute (National Research University)

Email: prokopovadv@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 443086

A. A. Gorshelev

Moscow Physicotechnical Institute (National Research University); Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: prokopovadv@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 443086; Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 108840

I. Y. Eremchev

Moscow Physicotechnical Institute (National Research University); Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: prokopovadv@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 443086; Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 108840

A. V. Naumov

Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow Pedagogical State University

Email: prokopovadv@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 108840; Moscow, 119991

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