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Imaging apparatus and method

  • US 20040051871A1
  • Filed: 06/23/2003
  • Published: 03/18/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An imaging apparatus for imaging a specimen within the evanescent field present upon reflection of a beam of light at a TIR surface comprising;

  • a polarized light source emitting a polarized, extended beam of light;

    a TIR structure having a TIR surface, the light from said polarized light source member being reflected only a single time by the TIR surface, the specimen being within the evanescent field associated with the total internal reflection at the TIR surface; and

    a polarization-sensitive two-dimensional array detector said detector detecting the light beam reflected from the TIR surface including the spatially distributed polarization change caused by the specimen.

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