Fig. 3: General virtual optical setup for large-scale discovery schemes.
From: Automated discovery of experimental designs in super-resolution microscopy with XLuminA
Gray boxes represent fundamental building units, each containing a super-SLM and a wave plate positioned a distance z1 apart. These units are inter-connected through free propagation distances z2, and beam splitters (PBS). The super-SLM is a hardware box type that consists of two spatial light modulators (SLMs), each one independently imprinting a phase pattern on the horizontal and vertical polarization components of the field. The setup’s complexity and size can be arbitrarily extended by incorporating additional connections, building units, light sources, detectors, etc. The quantization of the large-scale search space generated by this optical setup is provided in the Methods section.
