Supercritical angle microscopy and spectroscopy
Fluorescence detection, either involving propagating or near-field emission, is widely being used in spectroscopy, sensing and microscopy. Total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) confines fluorescence excitation by an evanescent (near-) field and it is a popular contrast generator for surface-selective fluorescence assays. Its emission equivalent, supercritical angle fluorescence (SAF) is comparably less established although it achieves a similar optical sectioning as does TIRF. SAF emerges when a fluorescing molecule is located very close to an interface and its near-field emission couples to the higher-refractive index medium (n2 > n1) and becomes propagative. Then, most fluorescence is detectable on the side of the higher-index substrate and a large fraction of this fluorescence is emitted into angles forbidden by Snell's law. SAF as well as the undercritical angle fluorescence (UAF) (far-field emission) components can be collected with microscope objectives having a high-enough detection aperture NA > n2 and be separated in the back-focal plane (BFP) by Fourier filtering. The BFP image encodes information about the fluorophore radiation pattern, and it can be analysed to yield precise information about the refractive index in which the emitters are embedded, their nanometric distance from the interface and their orientation. A SAF microscope can retrieve this near-field information through wide-field optics in a spatially resolved manner, and this functionality can be added to any existing inverted microscope.
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