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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 27.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Opt. 2009 Jun 20;48(18):3375–3384. doi: 10.1364/ao.48.003375

Table 1. Miniature Microscope Objective Top Level Optical Design Requirements.

Optical Requirements Requirement
NA at object/tissue 1.0 (nwater = 1.33)
NA at image/fiber 0.35
Working distance ≥450 μm
Field of view (diameter) 250 μm
Telecentric Object/Image space
Object plane sag ≤5 μm (size of 1 cell)
Wavelength 808 nm
Outer diameter (OD) ≤4mm (new)
RMS wavefront distortion ≤0:07λ