Designed with new manufacturing technology that creates lenses with shapes that are difficult to fabricate using other methods, Olympus’ new X Line™ series objectives and the UPLAPO-HR objectives for ...

When reflecting on science and research, it is hard to find a technology that is as important as microscopy. Microscopy is not only of utmost importance as a tool for conducting research, there is ...

Olympus delivers a breakthrough to life science microscopy with the launch of its next-generation X Line objectives. Ultra-thin lenses manufactured by a revolutionary polishing technique enable the ...

(a) Experimental setup for the characterization of high numerical aperture (NA) microscope objectives (MO). An incoming laser beam is linearly polarized and spatially filtered by a Fourier-filter. The ...

Classic design: the Schmidt objective produces detailed images of neurons in a mouse brain. (Courtesy: Anna Maria Reuss (USZ) & Fabian Voigt (UZH)) Researchers in Switzerland have built what they ...

Sometimes the things that people can get away with amaze me. In a recent Nature Photonics publication, a friend of mine described how he had managed to use some pretty cool techniques to focus light ...

Here, we report a versatile soft x-ray diffraction microscope with 70- to 90-nm resolution by using two different tabletop coherent soft x-ray sources-a soft x-ray laser and a high-harmonic source. We ...

Smaller and more versatile laser confocal microscopy platforms would potentially be of great value for in vivo imaging of live biological specimens, in scenarios where the size of conventional ...

Travels from 100 μm to 300 μm High-stiffness and dynamics resulting in outstanding step-and-settle and scanning performance Mounting flexibility with a variety of threaded adapters or mounting holes ...