Optics: measuring and testing – By dispersed light spectroscopy – With sample excitation
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-04
2011-01-04
Geisel, Kara E (Department: 2877)
Optics: measuring and testing
By dispersed light spectroscopy
With sample excitation
Reexamination Certificate
active
07864314
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus includes a position-sensitive detector to detect intensities of radiation as a function of position on the detector, and an optical system, characterized by a diffraction-limited resolution volume, adapted for imaging light emitted from activated and excited phototransformable optical labels (“PTOLs”) in a sample onto the position sensitive-detector. A first light source provides activation radiation to the sample to activate a subset of the PTOLs that are distributed in the sample with a density greater than an inverse of the diffraction-limited resolution volume of the optical system. A second light source provides excitation radiation to the sample to excite a portion of the PTOLs in the subset of the PTOLs. A controller controls one both of the activation radiation and the excitation radiation provided to the sample such that a density of PTOLs in the portion of the PTOLs is less than the inverse of the diffraction-limited resolution volume.
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Betzig Robert Eric
Hess Harald F.
Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP
Geisel Kara E
Hestzig LLC
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