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    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...
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    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...
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    A fluorescence microscope is an optical microscope that uses fluorescence instead of, or in addition to, scattering, reflection, and attenuation or absorption...
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    The stereo, stereoscopic or dissecting microscope is an optical microscope variant designed for low magnification observation of a sample, typically using...
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    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...
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  • lens, but also by the optical properties of the specimen. The thin optical sectioning possible makes these types of microscopes particularly good at 3D...
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    dominant microscope manufacturer of its era. 1928: Edward Hutchinson Synge publishes theory underlying the near-field scanning optical microscope 1931: Max...
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    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...
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    a scanning electron microscope (SEM) fitted with a cathodoluminescence detector, or an optical cathodoluminescence microscope, may be used to examine...
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    petrographic microscope is a type of optical microscope used to identify rocks and minerals in thin sections. The microscope is used in optical mineralogy...
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    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...
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    device, such as microscopes, enlargers, slide projectors, and telescopes. The concept is applicable to all kinds of radiation undergoing optical transformation...
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    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...
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  • (CLEM) is the combination of an optical microscope – usually a fluorescence microscope – with an electron microscope. In an integrated CLEM system, the...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    An optical fiber connector is a device used to link optical fibers, facilitating the efficient transmission of light signals. An optical fiber connector...
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    Microscopy (category Optical microscopy)
    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)...
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    the optical microscope and the atomic force microscope. Imperial College London provided the microscope sample substrates. The optical microscope, designed...
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    An operating microscope or surgical microscope is an optical microscope specifically designed to be used in a surgical setting, typically to perform microsurgery...
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  • light microscopy is used extensively in optical mineralogy. Although the invention of the polarizing microscope is typically attributed to David Brewster...
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    Hirox (category Microscopes)
    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...
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    SEEC microscopy (category Optical microscopy)
    ellipsometric contrast microscopy (SEEC) uses an upright or inverted optical microscope in a crossed polarization configuration and specific supporting plates...
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    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...
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    AFM, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and near-field scanning optical microscope (SNOM/NSOM), STED microscopy (STED), and scanning electron microscopy...
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    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...
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    tissue is embedded and then sectioned, the histological stain, and the optical microscope. Developments in electron microscopy, immunofluorescence, and the...
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    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...
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    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...
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    the scattering properties in liquids. The Raman microscope begins with a standard optical microscope, and adds an excitation laser, laser rejection filters...
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