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:

• 4X
• 10X
• 20X
• 40X oil
• 60x oil