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.

Olympus FV1000 Laser Scanning/Two-Photon Confocal Microscope

- 3D multi-color confocal imaging/optical sectioning (4 Channel detection)
- Two-photon imaging of thick samples (Long working distance objectives and a fs pulsed, tunable laser, 690-1000 nm)
- Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP)
Real time data capture with simultaneous (dual scan units) image-scan for coincident
bleach/photo-activation/photo-conversion while imaging
- Fluorescence spectra analysis
Variable band width detectors for spectral analysis

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)