Plural third harmonic generation microscopic system and method
AssigneeNational Taiwan University
InventorsChi-Kuang Sun, Ming-Rung Tsai
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Abstract
The present invention provides a plural third harmonic generation (THG) microscopic system and method. The system includes a laser device, a microscopic device, a beam splitter device and a photodetective device. By utilizing lasers with different central wavelengths or a broad band light source to simultaneously analyze THG response with respect to different wavelengths, a plurality of THG images and THG spectrum of the material or bio-tissue under stimulation of different wavelengths are obtained, thereby retrieving distributed microscopic images and resonant characteristics of the observational material or bio-molecules.
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A plural third harmonic generation (THG) microscopic system for retrieving spatial distribution microscopic images and characteristics of bio-molecules, comprising:
- a laser device, for irradiating a laser beam with a plurality of different wavelengths;
- a scanning device for receiving the laser beam with the plurality of different wavelengths, producing a two-dimensional scanning laser beam and directing the laser beam onto a reflective minor;
- a beam splitter device for receiving the laser beam reflected from the reflective minor and directing the reflected laser beam to a microscopic device;
- the microscopic device, including an object lens, for focusing the laser beam with the plurality of different wavelengths and irradiating the same onto an observational sample of the bio-molecules, thereby producing a THG signal for each wavelength responded from the observational sample, in which a THG beam with the THG response signal for each wavelength is incident on the object lens, irradiated to the beam splitter device, and split and irradiated onto a lens;
- a spectrometer, for processing the THG response signal for each wavelength, which response signal for each wavelength is each converted into an analog signal;
- an Analog/Digital converter, for converting the analog signal for each wavelength into a digital image signal and/or spectrum signal;
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- a computer system for receiving the digital image signal and/or spectrum signal and producing a plurality of THG image signals with different wavelengths or a THG spectrum.
A plural third harmonic generation (THG) microscopic method for retrieving spatial distribution microscopic images and characteristics of bio-molecules, comprising the following steps:
- providing a laser device for irradiating a laser beam with a plurality of different wavelengths;
- using a microscopic device, including an object lens, for focusing the laser beam with the plurality of different wavelengths onto an observational sample of the bio-molecules to produce a THG response signal for each wavelength responded from the observational sample, in which the THG response signal includes a THG light having a first wavelength and a THG light having a second wavelength;
- separating the THG light having a first wavelength with the THG light having a second wavelength;
- respectively converting the THG light having a first wavelength and the THG light having a second wavelength into a corresponding first electrical signal and a corresponding second electrical signal;
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- processing the first electrical signal and the second electrical signal to simultaneously forming a plural THG images or a plural THG spectrum of the observational sample.
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