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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

3D X-ray microscope employs a range of objectives, e.g., from 4X to 40X, and can also include a flat panel. The field of microscopy (optical microscopy)...

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

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

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...

structures. Most virus species have virions too small to be seen with an optical microscope and are one-hundredth the size of most bacteria. The origins of viruses...

AFM, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and near-field scanning optical microscope (SNOM/NSOM), STED microscopy (STED), and scanning electron microscopy...

describes the ability of any image-forming device such as an optical or radio telescope, a microscope, a camera, or an eye, to distinguish small details of an...

tissue is embedded and then sectioned, the histological stain, and the optical microscope. Developments in electron microscopy, immunofluorescence, and the...

long been known that the best achievable spatial resolution of an optical microscope, that is the smallest feature it can observe, is of the order of the...

In optics, any optical instrument or system – a microscope, telescope, or camera – has a principal limit to its resolution due to the physics of diffraction...

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

ellipsometric contrast microscopy (SEEC) uses an upright or inverted optical microscope in a crossed polarization configuration and specific supporting plates...