The featured interactive tutorial contains sliders and radio buttons that allow the user to adjust the intensity of illumination and to adjust a virtual beamsplitter that directs light to the eyepieces or a camera system.INTRODUCTION TO OPTICAL / LIGHT OR COMPOUND MICROSCOPE Infinity Microscope Conjugate Field PlanesĮxplore the relationship between image planes in a microscope with a tube lens for magnification of the intermediate image is determined by the ratio of the focal lengths of the tube and objective lens.Explore how eyepieces can be coupled to the human eye or a camera system to produce images generated by the microscope objective.Įxplore and examine the relationship between image planes relevant to the field and condenser diaphragms and how aperture size affects ray trace pathways in this interactive java tutorial.ĭiscover and learn about the relationship between image planes relevant to the field and condenser diaphragms and how aperture size affects ray trace pathways in this interactive tutorial. The eyepiece (or ocular) is designed to project either a real or virtual image. See off-axis oblique light rays passing through such a system. It's convenient to represent a perfect lens as a system composed of two individual lens elements when a point source of light does not lie in the focal plane of a lens. Perfect Two-Lens System Characteristics.See how light waves propagate through and are focused by a perfect lens. Simple imaging elements in a microscope are perfect lens, which is a corrected glass element that is aberration free and focuses light onto a single point. Explore how two light rays can establish the parameters of an imaging scenario. One method of representing a train of propagating light wave involves the geometrical optics determining the size and location of images. Geometrical Construction of Ray Diagrams.Standard equipment on this research-level microscope included 10x widefield high eyepoint eyepieces having a field number of 20, pre-centered halogen lamps, and fully enclosed light paths designed to exclude dirt and dust.

Each illustration is extensively labeled to aid understanding of the placement and proximity of lenses, diaphragms, mirrors, filters, shutters, lamps and other components contained within a modern microscope.įeaturing advanced Olympus UIS infinity-corrected optics, the BX51 is designed for both transmitted and reflected light utilizing a variety of contrast enhancement techniques including fluorescence, DIC, and phase contrast. Examine the internal components of the optical microscope with these cutaway diagrams of popular teaching and research microscopes.

Components of compound microscope