Rotating blue laser light reveals unimagined dynamics in living cells (IMAGE)

University of Freiburg

Rotating blue laser light reveals unimagined dynamics in living cells

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Blue laser beams rotate around the object 100 times per second at different angles (scheme on the left). The light waves scattered at the cell structures (cell) thus generate 100 super-resolved images per second. Within a 10ms rotation (0-360°), continuously deformed light waves produce the razor-sharp image of a cell from pure laser scattered light, as shown in the photo below.

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AG Rohrbach

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