Abstract
We present a new technique that produces en face tomographic images with a acquisition time per image. The setup consists of an interference microscope with stroboscopic illumination provided by a xenon arc flash lamp ( flashes at ). The tomographic images are obtained from two phase-opposed interferometric images recorded simultaneously by two synchronized CCD cameras. Transverse resolution better than is achieved by use of high-numerical-aperture microscope objectives. The short coherence length of the source yields an axial resolution of . binning leads to a detection sensitivity of . Our system is suitable for various applications, particularly in biology for in vivo cellular-level imaging.
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