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Olympus FV1000 Confocal Microscope

Location: CSC Room 32 

Main features of System:

  • Three standard Photo Multipliers Tube (PMT) light detectors with two of the channels having tunable spectral bandwidths.
  • Simultaneous transmitted light or DIC imaging while scanning confocally.
  • Fully automated Olympus IX81 inverted microscope.
  • Additional epifluorescence and DIC (Nomarski) illumination lamps for rapid sample identification and focusing.
  • Motorized Prior II XY stage with a variety of stage inserts available (slides,dishes, multiwall plates, etc..).
  • Olympus FV10-ASW 3.1 confocal imaging software

Imaging lasers:

  • 405nm diode laser
  • 488nm Argon gas laser
  • 543nm Helium-neon gas laser
  • 633nm Helium-neon gas laser

Objectives:

Objective Magnification Immersion  Numerical Apperature Correction Ring Coverglass (mm) Working Distance (mm)
UPlanSApo 10X Air 0.4
0.17 3.1
UPlanApo 20X Air 0.7
0.17 0.65
UApo 40X Oil 1.35 Corr 0.17 0.1
PlanApo 60X Water 1.2 Corr 0.13-0.21 0.28
PlanApo 60X Oil 1.4
0.17 0.12