Development of a laser scanning confocal microscope with programmably switchable vector beam illumination

Abstract

The laser scanning confocal microscope LSCM has become as a popular imaging tool for a wide range of investigations particularly in biological and biomedical sciences due to the ability of imaging thin slices of the specimen Use of polarization profile of the illumination beam in an LSCM as one of the parameters can extract information such as on molecular organizations in the specimen which is otherwise not possible Many polarization measurements in LSCM require capturing images with mor...