Optical Microscopes

For more information about our confocal microscopes (Olympus FV1000 with Multi-Photon or PerkinElmer VoX Spinning Disk) or basic light microscopes, please select from the list below.

Leica Stellaris 8 DIVE Multiphoton Confocal System

- Confocal Imaging with 4 visible laser lines and 4 tunable HyD detectors (410 - 850 nm)
- Multiphoton , Second Harmonic Generation (SHG), and Third Harmonic Generation (THG) imaging using pulsed invisible dual IR lasers (tunable 700 - 1300 nm & fixed 1045 nm beam) and 3 spectrally tunable 4Tune NDD channels (380 - 800 nm)
- Super-resolution imaging (120 nm XY, < 300 nm Z) using LIGHTNING adaptive deconvolution
- Fluorescence lifetime microscopy (FLIM) imaging, including average photon arrival time (TauSense) and Time Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC)-based FLIM via FALCON (FAst Lifetime CONtrast)
- Resonant scanner for high-speed imaging
- Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP)
- FLIM - Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)
Evident IXplore SpinSR Spinning Disk Confocal Microscope

- High-resolution and fast spinning disk confocal system for fixed and live sample imaging
- Bright-field, DIC, wide-field fluorescence, and confocal imaging
- 5 laser lines and 2 sCMOS cameras (Hamamatsu Fusion BT) for simultaneous two-channel, high-speed imaging
- Yokogawa CSU-W1 (2 discs: 50 μm pinhole disk for high resolution confocal imaging, SoRa disk for super resolution imaging)
- Z drift correction function (ZDC, autofocus) to maintain long-term time-lapse focus stability
- High speed FRAP/photostimulation system
- Fully automated objectives, stage, and filter turrets
- High-speed piezo stage for capturing fast-moving, high-resolution images
- Stage-top live cell incubation system (30-40°C, CO2) for piezo stage
- High-speed image processing, powered by TruSight deconvolution and OSR (Olympus Super Resolution) algorithms, achieving 120 nm XY resolution

Olympus BX53 Light/Fluorescence Microscope

- Upright configuration Wide Field Microscope
- Bright Field Imaging with Dark Field option
- Phase contrast and DIC imaging
- Widefield fluorescence microscopy
- Motorized fluorescence cube filter wheel, objective lens and condenser
- Fully motorized stage (XYZ) ideal for image stitching, tiling, and Z-stacking
- Both Color & High sensitivity Black and White CCD cameras

Olympus SZX10 Stereomicroscope

- Dissections and viewing objects at low magnifications
- Brightfield/Darkfield transmitted LED light
- Reflected light (Objective-mounted fiber optic light source)
- High resolution color (can be converted to B&W) digital image capture, short movies
- Zoom range is 0.63x – 6.3x (6.3x – 63x w/ 10x tube lens)