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🔬 Confocal Microscope Lab (2D): Pinhole, Optical Sectioning, Airy PSF and STED Resolution

A 2D confocal and STED microscope lab: exact Airy PSF with a finite pinhole, paraxial axial response, optical sectioning of a fluorescent sheet, STED depletion and simulated widefield, confocal and STED images with resolved-pair readout and nine numerical checks.

Optics & Light2DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

⚙ Under the hood

confocal microscopypinholeoptical sectioningAiry discSTEDresolutionfluorescence

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install