Novel Techniques in Microscopy

OSA Optics and Photonics Congress and Tabletop Exhibits

Collocated with

Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging (DH)
Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS)
Hyperspectral Imaging and Sensing of the Environment (HISE)
Optical Trapping Applications (OTA)

Technical Conference: April 26-30, 2009
Exhibition: April 28-30, 2009

Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Submissions Deadline: January 15, 2009 (12:00 p.m noon EDT; 17.00 GMT)
Hotel Reservation Deadline: March 25, 2009
Pre-Registration Deadline: April 1, 2009

2009 Meeting Chairs

Jerome Mertz, Boston Univ., USA
Min Gu, Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Australia

About Novel Techniques in Microscopy

The topical meeting on Novel Techniques in Microscopy will focus specifically on novel techniques rather than applications. The goal of this meeting is to provide a forum for the interaction of inventors in optical microscopy, researchers and students, and industrial participants.

Optical microscopy is one of the most important tools in biological research. Technical advances are continually pushing back the limits of microscopy performance and versatility. These advances are occurring on many fronts. Examples include new strategies for superresolution beyond the diffraction limit, including stimulated emission depletion microscopy (STED) or techniques based on molecular photoactivation (PALM, STORM, etc), or structured illumination. New techniques are also emerging to increase depth penetration in tissue, based for example of adaptive optics, or miniaturized optics with GRIN lenses or fibers, opening new directions in intravital imaging.

Examples are fluorescence endomicroscopes or optical coherence tomography (OCT) fiberscopes. Other approaches have concentrated on phase imaging, such as interference microscopies or digital holography, or polarization imaging. Still other strategies have relied on nonlinear contrast mechanisms, such as multi-photon excitation, multi-harmonic generation, or coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS), with recent emphasis on coherent control. The list goes on ….

This topical meeting will focus specifically on novel techniques rather than applications. Emphasis will be placed on new advances and strategies that push back the limits in microscopic imaging, leading to improvements in resolution, speed, depth penetration, versatility, etc... The goal of this meeting will be to provide a forum for the interaction of inventors in optical microscopy, researchers and students, and industrial participants.

Topics to Be Considered

• Nonlinear microscopy
• Fiberscopes and Endoscopy techniques
• Adaptive optics applied to microscopy
• OCT and Holographic microscopy
• Superresolution
• New techniques