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Raicol's RTP Phase Modulator to enhance single-scan acquisition in I-SHG microscopy. At the link below, you may find an article by a group of researchers of INRS-EMT, Canada. This article demonstrates, for the first time, the possibility of single-scan acquisition in I-SHG microscopy (1S-ISHG) based on an electro-optic phase-scanner using Raicol's RTP Phase Modulator using the system described above. The scan of phase-shifts is performed for each pixel of the I-SHG image being acquired, which corresponds to a total acquisition of only a few seconds, which is speed increase by 20 times from the current pixel scans. This opens the possibility of measuring - in a minimally invasive way - the relative polarity in many biophysical systems undergoing fast dynamics, e.g. in microtubules in various stages of the mitosis, living bio-samples, or tissues submitted to dynamic traction assays, with an enhanced time resolution. This technology can also be applied to other SHG enhancements such as polarization-resolved SHG (p-SHG), resulting in similar speed improvement. https://lnkd.in/em8rthF #microscopy #spectroscopy #photonics #pixelscan #Raicolcrystals #raicol