IsoSense: frequency enhanced sensorless adaptive optics through structured illumination

Optica. 2019 Mar 15;6(3):370-379. doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.6.000370. eCollection 2019 Mar 20.

Abstract

We present IsoSense, a wavefront sensing method that mitigates sample dependency in image-based sensorless adaptive optics applications in microscopy. Our method employs structured illumination to create additional high spatial frequencies in the image through custom illumination patterns. This improves the reliability of image quality metric calculations and enables sensorless wavefront measurement even in samples with sparse spatial frequency content. We demonstrate the feasibility of IsoSense for aberration correction in a deformable-mirror-based structured illumination super-resolution fluorescence microscope.