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High sensitivity, incoherent differential imaging

Microscopic visualisation of optically transparent samples has been a topic of interest for several decades. Features such as density or chemical composition can influence the optical phase of transmitted light, and phase contrast can reveal these structur ...

EPFL2022

SPAD array technology enables fluctuation-contrast super-resolution in a confocal microscope

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A fluorescence correlation contrast is a straightforward approach to super-resolution imaging. Combining a SPAD array with a novel detection scheme (ISM), we obtain images with up to x4 times resolution enhancement. ...

OSA-SPIE2021

Computational methods for live heart imaging with speed-constrained microscopes

Olivia Mariani

Imaging methods to capture the beating and developing heart inside embryonic animal models such as the zebrafish are a key component for the study of fundamental biological processes such as cardiac birth defects or tissue regeneration. However, live heart ...

EPFL2021

Correction of spherical surface measurements by confocal microscopy

Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Jeremy Béguelin

Refractive microlenses are nowadays widely used in optical systems. Characterizing their surface is essential to ensure their quality and to optimize their fabrication process. This is realized by optical surface profilers thanks to their vertical resoluti ...

2020

Quantum correlation measurement with single photon avalanche diode arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

Temporal photon correlation measurement, instrumental to probing the quantum properties of light, typically requires multiple single photon detectors. Progress in single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array technology highlights their potential as high-perf ...

2019

Custom Adapter For Extended Field-Of-View Microsphere-Based Scanning Super-Resolution Microscopy

Martinus Gijs, Gergely Huszka

We present a dielectric microsphere-based super resolution optical microscope that can image a sample beyond the classical diffraction limit [1]. The super resolution imaging capability of a single microsphere normally is restricted to an area of similar t ...

IEEE2018

Dynamic range extension for photon counting arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Claudio Bruschini

Confocal microscopes use photomultiplier tubes and hybrid detectors due to their large dynamic range, which typically exceeds the one of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). The latter, due to their photon counting operation, are usually limited to an o ...

2018

Dielectric-sphere-based microsystem for optical super-resolution imaging

Gergely Huszka

Well-established imaging techniques proved that features below the diffraction limit can be observed optically using so-called super-resolution microscopies, which overcome Abbe's resolution limit. In traditional far-field microscopy, the introduction of f ...

EPFL2018

Microsphere-based super-resolution scanning optical microscope

Martinus Gijs, Hui Yang, Gergely Huszka

High-refractive index dielectric microspheres positioned within the field of view of a microscope objective in a dielectric medium can focus the light into a so-called photonic nanojet. A sample placed in such nanojet can be imaged by the objective with su ...

Optical Soc Amer2017

Miniaturized Dielectric Elastomer Actuator for Mechanical Stimulation of Monolayer Cell Cultures

Alexandre Poulin

This thesis advances the field of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) through the development of device designs, fabrication processes, strain characterization technique and modelling tool. It provides the first demonstration that DEAs can be interfaced ...

EPFL2016

Nanoscopy in nonlinear scanning fluorescence imaging systems

Grégoire Pierre Jean Laporte

In the last 30 years, superresolution in optical microscopy has been a major field of research. During this time, different techniques have been created to break the diffraction limit in order to make observations at a nanometric scale. Given that optical ...

EPFL2016

Determination of sub-diffraction-limited organelles and biomolecules using microsphere lenses in combination with fluorescence microscopy

Johan Auwerx, Martinus Gijs, Norman Lionel Moullan, Hui Yang

We propose the use of a high-refractive index glass microsphere in combination with a conventional fluorescence microscope for imaging sub-cellular organelles and biomolecules. The microsphere is placed on a sample that is immersed in water, collects the n ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Photonic Nanojet Array for Fast Detection of Single Nanoparticles in a Flow

Martinus Gijs, Matteo Cornaglia, Hui Yang

We detect by optical microscopy Au and fluorescent nanopartides (NPs) during their motion in water based medium, using an array of dielectric microspheres that are patterned in a microwell array template. The Microspheres act as lenses focusing the light o ...

American Chemical Society2015

Programming and use of Parylene C fluorescence as a quantitative on-chip reference

Martinus Gijs, Ata Tuna Ciftlik, Diego Gabriel Dupouy, Joan Teixidor

A large number of lab-on-a-chip applications use fluorescence for quantifying biological entities. In such applications, incorporation of a stable on-chip fluorescent reference source would be highly desirable in order to compensate for instrumental parame ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Full field vertical scanning in short coherence digital holographic microscope

Christian Depeursinge, Christophe Moser, Etienne Cuche, Frédéric Montfort

In Digital holography Microscopes (DHM) implemented in the so-called "off axis" configuration, the object and reference wave fronts are not co-planar but form an angle of a few degrees. This results into two main drawbacks. First, the contrast of the inter ...

Optical Soc Amer2013

Empowering Low-Cost CMOS Cameras by Image Processing to Reach Comparable Results with Costly CCDs

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Yusuf Leblebici, Gözen Köklü, Julien Michel Ghaye

Despite the huge research effort to improve the performance of the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors, charge-coupled devices (CCDs) still dominate the cell biology-related conventional fluorescence microscopic imaging market wher ...

2013

Biophotonic tool for sensing the dynamics of H2O2 extracellular release in stressed cells

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Shourya Dutta Gupta

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is known to play a multifaceted role in cell physiology mechanisms involving oxidative stress and intracellular signal transduction. Therefore, the development of analytical tools providing information on the dynamics of H2O2 gener ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering, Po Box 10, Bellingham, Wa 98227-0010 Usa2012

Resolution and Complex Deconvolution in Holographic Microscopy

Yann Jérôme Michel Pascal Cotte

Interest in high resolution imaging techniques has recently multiplied due to their importance in bio-medical research. Quantitative phase measurements by holographic microscopy is an extraordinary tool to gain new understanding of transparent biological s ...

EPFL2012

Quantitative Comparison of Commercial CCD and Custom-Designed CMOS Camera for Biological Applications

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, René Beuchat, Yusuf Leblebici, Gözen Köklü, Julien Michel Ghaye

In biological applications and systems where even the smallest details have a meaning, CCD cameras are mostly preferred and they hold most of the market share despite their high costs. In this paper, we propose a custom-designed CMOS camera to compete with ...

2012

Dynamic measurement of the height and volume of migrating cells by a novel fluorescence microscopy technique

Jean-Jacques Meister, Chiara Gabella, Alexander Verkhovskiy, Lara Buscemi Estefanell, Benoît Vianay

We propose a new technique to measure the volume of adherent migrating cells. The method is based on a negative staining where a fluorescent, non-cell-permeant dye is added to the extracellular medium. The specimen is observed with a conventional fluoresce ...

2011