Spatial coherence beams in critical illumination for optical microscopes

Authors
Castaneda, R Bohorquez-Ballen, J
Citation
R. Castaneda et J. Bohorquez-ballen, Spatial coherence beams in critical illumination for optical microscopes, OPT COMMUN, 175(4-6), 2000, pp. 337-345
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS
ISSN journal
00304018 → ACNP
Volume
175
Issue
4-6
Year of publication
2000
Pages
337 - 345
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(20000301)175:4-6<337:SCBICI>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
We show experimental evidence of the propagation of spatial coherence beams between the aperture stop plane of the critical illuminator and the object plane of optical microscopes. This was concluded from the comparison of th e visibility curves of Young's interferograms properly acquired. Fourier an alysis was applied to obtain these curves. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. A ll rights reserved.