The Bessel beam (BB) has found widespread adoption in various forms of light-sheet microscopy. However, for one-photon fluorescence, the transverse profile of the beam poses challenges due to the detrimental effect of the sidelobes. Here, we mitigate this issue by using a computer-generated phase element for generating a sidelobe suppressed Bessel beam (SSBB). We then progress to perform a comparison of biological imaging using SSBB to standard BB in a light-sheet geometry. The SSBB peak intensity is more than an order of magnitude higher than the first sidelobe. In contrast to a standard BB light-sheet, an SSBB does not need deconvolution. The SSBB propagates to depths exceeding 400 m in phantom samples maintaining a transverse size of 5 m. Finally, we demonstrate the advantage of using an SSBB light-sheet for biological applications by imaging fixed early-stage zebrafish larvae. In comparison to the standard BB, we observe a two-fold increase in contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) when imaging the labelled cellular eye structures and the notochords. Our results provide an effective approach to generating and using SSBB light-sheets to enhance contrast for one-photon light-sheet microscopy.
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