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%PDF-1.3 There are two basic types of immersion oil, Type A and Type B. value of 1.25. Notice that from the setting of f/1 to f/2, and again for f/4 to f/8, the lens aperture is reduced by half and the effective area is reduced by a factor of 4 at each interval. For example, an f/2.8, 25mm focal length lens operating with a magnification of -0.5X will have an effective working f/# of f/4.2. Telecentric, fixed focal length, micro-video, fixed magnification, variable magnification, or zoom lenses available. The 160 is a standard DIN measurement in millimeters of the tube length of the microscope required for this lens to work properly. If you try using immersion oil, clean up with lens tissue or a KimWipe on the lens. One or two drops of oil are placed on top of the cover slip and the 100x objective lens is brought into position so that it touches the oil and creates a "bridge" of oil between the slide and objective lens. Contact : Catalogs : Company : Discount Programs, Copyright year, Edmund Optics Inc., 101 East Gloucester Pike, Barrington, NJ 08007-1380 USA, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA): Do Not Sell My Information, http://www.edmundoptics.com/knowledge-center/application-notes/imaging/lens-iris-aperture-setting/. It is important to remember that f/# and NA are inversely related. This impacts image quality as well as the lens’s ability to collect light. A high numerical aperture (NA = 0.92) objective lens for imaging and addressing of cold atoms Carsten Robens1,*,Stefan Brakhane1,Wolfgang Alt1,Felix Kleißler1,Dieter Meschede1,Geol Moon1,Gautam Ramola1, andAndrea Alberti1 1Institut für Angewandte Physik, Universität Bonn, Wegelerstr. Address Book, The medium between the 100x lens and the slide can be air or oil. value of the specific objective lens. The f/# impacts more than just light throughput. Table 2: Lens performance changes as the f/# varies. Specifically, f/# is directly related to the theoretical resolution and contrast limits and the Depth of Field (DOF) and depth of focus of the lens. Notice that from the setting of f/1 to f/2, and again for f/4 to f/8, the lens aperture is reduced by half and the effective area is reduced by a factor of 4 at each interval. The definition of f/# in Equation 1 is limited in the sense that it is defined at an infinite working distance where the magnification is effectively zero. This allows very little refraction of the light rays as they go through the slide, specimen, cover slip, oil and through the glass objective lens of your microscope. The numbers usually increase by multiples of √2.

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The 100x objective lens is also rated at 1.25. In optical microfabrication and nanofabrication, they …

Numerical aperture is commonly used in microscopy to describe the acceptance cone of an objective (and hence its light-gathering ability and resolution), and in fiber optics, in which it describes the range of angles within which light that is incident on the fiber will be transmitted along it. Oil (1.5) is such a material. On Friday, November 27th, Customer Service and Engineering Support will have limited availability between 8:30am and 4:00pm EDT. condenser lens is mounted in the stage of the microscope. Free training videos with imaging and illumination tips and tricks.

The higher the power, the more important this condenser lens becomes. This is why most 100xr objective lenses are called oil immersion lenses. of the lens. Have questions on your application? ����L� Learn more about immersion oil and numerical aperture here. %���������