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Point-spread-function engineering in MINFLUX: optimality of donut and half-moon excitation patterns

Liu, Yan  
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Dong, Jonathan  
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Maya, Juan Augusto
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January 1, 2025
Optics Letters

Localization microscopy enables imaging with resolutions that surpass the conventional optical diffraction limit. Notably, the Maximally INFormative LUminescence eXcitation (MINFLUX) method achieves super-resolution by shaping the excitation point spread function (PSF) to minimize the required photon flux for a given precision. Various beam shapes have recently been proposed to improve localization efficiency, yet their optimality remains an open question. In this work, we deploy a numerical and theoretical framework to determine optimal excitation patterns for MINFLUX. Such a computational approach allows us to search for new beam patterns in a fast and low-cost fashion and to avoid time-consuming and expensive experimental explorations. We show that the conventional donut beam is a robust optimum when the excitation beams are all constrained to the same shape. Further, our PSF engineering framework yields two pairs of half-moon beams (orthogonal to each other), which can improve the theoretical localization precision by a factor of about two.

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DOI
10.1364/OL.543882
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85212556525

PubMed ID

39718850

Author(s)
Liu, Yan  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Dong, Jonathan  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Maya, Juan Augusto

Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna

Balzarotti, Francisco

Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna

Unser, Michael  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025-01-01

Published in
Optics Letters
Volume

50

Issue

1

Start page

37

End page

40

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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LIB  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council

853348

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January 25, 2025
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