Table of Contents
Principles
Principles of Wave Optics
Donald T. Gavel
Principles of Geometric Optics
Joel Kubby
Theory of Image Formation
Michael Schwertner
Methods
Aberrations and Benefit of Their Correction in Confocal Microscopy
Michael Schwertner
Specimen-Induced Geometrical Distortions
Michael Schwertner
Simulation of Aberrations
Michael Schwertner
Overview of Adaptive Optics in Biological Imaging
Elijah Y.S. Yew and Peter T.C. So
Wavefront Correctors
Joel Kubby
Adaptive Optics System Alignment and Assembly
Diana C. Chen
Applications: Indirect Wavefront Sensing
Sensorless Adaptive Optics for Microscopy
Martin J. Booth and Alexander Jesacher
Implementation of Adaptive Optics in Nonlinear Microscopy for Biological Samples Using Optimization Algorithms
John M. Girkin
AO Two-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy Using Stochastic Parallel Descent Algorithm with Zernike Polynomial Basis
Yaopeng Zhou
Pupil-Segmentation-Based Adaptive Optics for Microscopy
Na Ji and Eric Betzig
Applications: Direct Wavefront Sensing
Coherence-Gated Wavefront Sensing
Jonas Binding and Markus Rückel
Adaptive Optics in Wide-Field Microscopy
Peter Kner, Zvi Kam, David A. Agard, and John Sedat
Biological Imaging and Adaptive Optics in Microscopy
Elijah Y.S. Yew, Jae Won Cha, Jerome Ballesta, and Peter T.C. So
Adaptive Optical Microscopy Using Direct Wavefront Measurements
Oscar Azucena, Xiaodong Tao, and Joel Kubby
Index