Evaluation of spherical particle sizes with an asymmetric illumination microscope

Jessica C. Ramella-Roman; Paulo R. Bargo; Scott A. Prahl; Steven L. Jacques

doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2003.811289

Evaluation of spherical particle sizes with an asymmetric illumination microscope

Jessica C. Ramella-Roman, Paulo R. Bargo, Scott A. Prahl, Steven L. Jacques

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Abstract

A polarized microscope system is used to perform goniometric measurements of light scattered by small particles. The light incident angle on a sample of monodispersed latex microspheres is increased sequentially and a microscope objective lens collects scattered light from the samples. Light is only collected at angles greater than the objective lens numerical aperture (NA) so that only light scattered by the spheres is collected. The experimental results were modeled with a Mie theory-based algorithm. Experiments conducted with microspheres of diameter 1.03, 2.03, and 6.4 μm show that, by decreasing the objective lens NA from NA = 0.55 to NA = 0.0548, a more distinguishable scattering pattern is detectable. From these highly shaped curves, we found that the size of a sphere of nominal diameter 2.03 μm was 2.11 ±0.06 μm and a 6.4 μm sphere was 6.34 ±0.07 μm.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	301-306
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
Volume	9
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2003.811289
State	Published - Mar 2003
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Asymmetric illumination
Goniometry
Mie theory
Oblique microscopy
Polarized light microscopy

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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