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6. INTERFEROMETRY AND TOMOGRAPHY LABORATORY
(6-014, Wonshik Choi)

This laboratory is developing interferometric techniques for probing biological structures and dynamics. New methods have been developed for extending low-coherence interferometry to examine the wavelength, angular, temporal and phase shift variations of light which interacts with a biological medium.

Fourier phase microscope (FPM)
Tunnable 40 mW Ar+ laser (Melles Griot)
Programmable phase modulator (Hamamatsu Co.);
Cooled CCD (Roper Scientific)
Inverted microscope, Axiovert S 100 (Zeiss Co.)

Hilbert phase microscope (HPM)
High-power HeNe laser (Melles Griot)
Fast CCD camera (C7770, Hamamatsu Co.)
fiber optics delivery system (Oz Optics)
electronic feedback loop

Diffraction phase microscope (DPM)
Doubled Nd:YAG laser
Cooled CCD (Roper Scientific)
Inverted microscope, Axiovert 35 (Zeiss Co.)

Epi-fluorescence/ phase contrast imaging system
IX71 Microscope (Olympus)
1kHz CMOS camera (Hamamatsu)

Dual-beam interferometer setup
Superlum SLD-761 superluminescent diode (center wavelength 1548 nm)
PILOT-2 diode driver
National Instruments PCI-6110 input/output board
Brimrose acousto-optic modulators (TEF-110) and drivers
Fiber and free space interferometer optics

Interference microscopy system
Olympus objective lenses
free space optical components
Photometrics CoolSnap CCD camera
Newport 850G actuators with ESP-300 controller

Superluminescent Diode Temperature Controlled Module
Power: 20 mW (1550 nm), linewidth: 20 nm.
EG&G C86064E Superluminescent Diode
Power: 5 mW (845 nm), linewidth 19 nm.

Neural electrophysiology equipment (contribution from H. Sebastian Seung)
- Warner patch clamp amplifier
- Sutter Instruments motorized electrode micropositioner
- World Precision Instruments A395 Stimulus isolator