The optical microscope, also referred to as a light microscope, is a type of microscope that commonly uses visible light and a system of lenses to generate...

a sample using a probe. The most common microscope (and the first to be invented) is the optical microscope, which uses lenses to refract visible light...

lens, but also by the optical properties of the specimen. The thin optical sectioning possible makes these types of microscopes particularly good at 3D...

The stereo, stereoscopic or dissecting microscope is an optical microscope variant designed for low magnification observation of a sample, typically using...

A fluorescence microscope is an optical microscope that uses fluorescence instead of, or in addition to, scattering, reflection, and attenuation or absorption...

with a resolution of λ0/60. A decade later, a patent on an optical near-field microscope was filed by Dieter Pohl, followed in 1984 by the first paper...

petrographic microscope is a type of optical microscope used to identify rocks and minerals in thin sections. The microscope is used in optical mineralogy...

(CLEM) is the combination of an optical microscope – usually a fluorescence microscope – with an electron microscope. In an integrated CLEM system, the...

an angle of about 5.2°. By convention, for magnifying glasses and optical microscopes, where the size of the object is a linear dimension and the apparent...

dominant microscope manufacturer of its era. 1928: Edward Hutchinson Synge publishes theory underlying the near-field scanning optical microscope 1931: Max...

An operating microscope or surgical microscope is an optical microscope specifically designed to be used in a surgical setting, typically to perform microsurgery...

a scanning electron microscope (SEM) fitted with a cathodoluminescence detector, or an optical cathodoluminescence microscope, may be used to examine...

device, such as microscopes, enlargers, slide projectors, and telescopes. The concept is applicable to all kinds of radiation undergoing optical transformation...

or grain mounts for study in the laboratory with a petrographic microscope. Optical mineralogy is used to identify the mineralogical composition of geological...

the optical microscope and the atomic force microscope. Imperial College London provided the microscope sample substrates. The optical microscope, designed...

A digital microscope is a variation of a traditional optical microscope that uses optics and a digital camera to output an image to a monitor, sometimes...

the structure of a prepared surface of material as revealed by an optical microscope above 25× magnification. The microstructure of a material (such as...

several optical elements. They are used in microscopes, binoculars, telescopes, cameras, slide projectors, CD players and many other optical instruments...

the scattering properties in liquids. The Raman microscope begins with a standard optical microscope, and adds an excitation laser, laser rejection filters...

other libraries Optical Microscopy Primer — Phase Contrast Microscopy by Florida State University Phase contrast and dark field microscopes (Université Paris-Sud)...

use electron optics that are analogous to the glass lenses of an optical light microscope to control the electron beam, for instance focusing it to produce...

microscope, or NSOM. The relatively new optical science of dressed photons (DPs) can also find its origin in near-field optics. The limit of optical resolution...

an optical sectioning effect. Unlike confocal microscopes, multiphoton microscopes do not contain pinhole apertures that give confocal microscopes their...

An optical fiber connector is a device used to link optical fibers, facilitating the efficient transmission of light signals. An optical fiber connector...

less than 200 nanometers. For this reason, conventional optical systems, such as microscopes, have been unable to accurately image very small, nanometer-sized...

an X-ray lens to focus X-rays on a CCD, in a manner similar to an optical microscope. XM-1 held the world record in spatial resolution with Fresnel zone...

light microscopy is used extensively in optical mineralogy. Although the invention of the polarizing microscope is typically attributed to David Brewster...

level images. Recorded data can be read with a combination of an optical microscope and a polarizer. The technique was first demonstrated in 2009 by researchers...

The optical transfer function (OTF) of an optical system such as a camera, microscope, human eye, or projector is a scale-dependent description of their...

optical microscope. With the optical microscope, the lenses are designed for the optics of the eye. Attaching a CCD camera to an optical microscope will...