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hardware:scanner [2018/08/23 20:21]
Jon Daniels [MEMS limitations] |
hardware:scanner [2019/04/16 12:20]
Jon Daniels [Scanner] added screenshot of schematic |
| Most often a fiber collimator (FC/PC or FC/APC) is used to couple the excitation beam into the scanner, or free-space coupling is possible. The output is C-mount threads that easily attach to an ASI tube lens (i.e. the scan lens is an integral part of the scanner itself). In order to scan the beam exactly parallel to itself 4f spacing needs to be maintained between the MEMS mirror and the sample, meaning that the spacing between the scanner tube lens and objective back focal plane needs to be correct. | Most often a fiber collimator (FC/PC or FC/APC) is used to couple the excitation beam into the scanner, or free-space coupling is possible. The output is C-mount threads that easily attach to an ASI tube lens (i.e. the scan lens is an integral part of the scanner itself). In order to scan the beam exactly parallel to itself 4f spacing needs to be maintained between the MEMS mirror and the sample, meaning that the spacing between the scanner tube lens and objective back focal plane needs to be correct. |
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| A schematic of the scanner can be found {{:hardware:scanner_labeled.pdf|here}}. | A schematic of the scanner: ({{:hardware:scanner_labeled.pdf|PDF}}). |
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| Larger MEMS mirrors are available and may be useful to achieve higher illumination NA when required. However, the larger mirrors usually have a lower resonance so cannot be driven as fast. | Larger MEMS mirrors are available and may be useful to achieve higher illumination NA when required. However, the larger mirrors usually have a lower resonance so cannot be driven as fast. |
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| An arcane optical effect called "bow" that occurs when the axis of rotation isn't orthogonal to the plane made by the incoming/outgoing beams. Since we have a 2D mirror, only one of the rotation axes can be made perpendicular to the beam plane and the other axis unavoidably suffers from this bow problem. The resulting effect is a slight optical coupling of the axes, on the order of a few percent over the entire mirror travel for a standard scanner. The Tiger controller firmware compensates for the effect automatically in internal mode and a per-axis compensation factor can be set (''ERROR'' command). With a cylindrical lens, the "ideal" axis can be set to be either the line axis (allowing you to perfectly smear out the Gaussian intensity profile within the plane) or else the slice axis (allowing you to move the light sheet to create a stack in piezo/slice synchronous scan mode without tilting the light sheet), but not both simultaneously. | An arcane optical effect called "bow" that occurs when the axis of rotation isn't orthogonal to the plane made by the incoming/outgoing beams. Since we have a 2D mirror, only one of the rotation axes can be made perpendicular to the beam plane and the other axis unavoidably suffers from this bow problem. The resulting effect is a slight optical coupling of the axes, on the order of a few percent over the entire mirror travel for a standard scanner. The Tiger controller firmware compensates for the effect automatically in internal mode and a per-axis compensation factor can be set (''ERROR'' command). With a cylindrical lens, the "ideal" axis can be either the line axis (allowing you to perfectly smear out the Gaussian intensity profile within the plane) or else the slice axis (allowing you to move the light sheet to create a stack in piezo/slice synchronous scan mode without tilting the light sheet), but not both simultaneously. This has to be set in the factory during scanner assembly, and unless otherwise specified the latter option is chosen, which also corresponds to having the cylindrical lens scanner oriented in exactly the same manner as a Gaussian beam scanner. |
