A hybrid digital holographic microscopy for biological applications

It will be useful in biological applications if two or more physical parameters are simultaneously measured in a digital holographic microscope. In this paper, we present a hybrid digital holographic microscope that can measure simultaneously three-dimensional (3D) phase and 3D fluorescence distributions. This property has big advantage compared with conventional optical microscopes such as phase contrast microscope and fluorescence microscope. We present an optical setup for measuring both phase and fluorescence images. In the experiments, two objects that are fluorescence beads and egera densa are used. The separation method of phase and fluorescence images is presented.