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Method of constructing confocal microscope components
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In this article, a method for constructing a Nipkow disk using a zone plate disk is described, including the substep of disposing a plurality of focusing means a long a disk, wherein the plurality of focal points have a common focal distance.Abstract:
A method for constructing a Nipkow disk using a zone plate disk, comprises the steps of constructing a zone plate disk, including the substep of disposing a plurality of focusing means a long a disk, wherein the plurality of focusing means have a common focal distance; placing a photographic plate at the focal distance of the plurality of focusing means; illuminating the plurality of focusing means with a light source such that the illumination is passed through the plurality of focusing means and focused onto the photographic plate thereby creating an image of a plurality of points of focused illumination; and capturing the image created on the photographic plate and using it to construct the Nipkow disk.read more
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Tandem-Scanning Reflected-Light Microscope*
TL;DR: In this paper, the object was illuminated with nearly incoherent light passing through holes in one side of a rotating scanning disk (Nipkow wheel) which was imaged by the objective into the object plane.
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Confocal scanning optical microscope
TL;DR: An improved real-time confocal scanning microscope, and an improved perforated disk for use in such microscope are presented in this article, where a polarizing beamsplitting cube and a rotatable Nipkow disk are mounted so that the scan lines produced as the disk rotates will cross both the sample feature to be imaged and the sensor array in the video camera at an angle substantially equal to 45 degrees.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a Nipkow disc is used to project light and an objective lens to receive the light and illuminate points on an object to be viewed by viewing the reflected light focused on the pinholes by the objective lens.
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Fresnel lens with aspiteric grooves
TL;DR: A Fresnel lens formed of an infrared transmitting material has a grooved surface, and the distances between successive successive grooves vary across the lens as discussed by the authors, and a substantial portion of the grooves have an aspherical surface.
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Confocal tandem scanning reflected light microscope
TL;DR: In this article, a Tandem Scanning Microscope is disclosed using a modified Nipkow disk design, which is performed using many apertures at once and using one disk for both image and illumination scanning.