title: Polarization effects in lattice-STED microscopy.
abstract: Massive parallelization of STED-like nanoscopies is now achievable using well-designed optical lattices for state depletion. Yet, only the lattice intensity distribution was considered for the description of the super-resolved point spread function. This holds for fast-rotating fluorescent emitters. Here, we study the effects of electric field topography in lattice-STED microscopy. The dependence of the super-resolved point spread function on the number of dipoles and their orientation is investigated. Single fluorescent nano-diamonds are imaged using different optical lattice configurations and the measured resolutions are compared to theoretical simulations.
authors.affiliation: Univ Bordeaux, LP2N, F-33405 Talence, France. brahim.lounis@u-bordeaux.fr.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: C-Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: H-C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Treussart
authors.forename: J-B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Trebbia
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lounis