Automated Systems - Let your Microscope do the Work

A wide array of components in modern microscope systems can be automated from focus and stage control, to electromechanical shutters to illumination source switching to image acquisition. Automating these functions can significantly increase throughput and make your process incredibly repeatable and controllable. Automated microscopy systems are extremely valuable when many repeated observations are required.

Figure 2: Video of an Automated Microscopy System that Edmund Optics had on Display at Photonics West 2018

Liquid Lens Integration - Quick Focus Adjustment

Liquid lenses are electrically-tunable cells of fluid that quickly change their shape when a current or voltage is applied, adjusting focus to locate objects at different working distances. When integrated into microscope systems in microscopic imaging applications, liquid lenses simplify the process of focus stacking, or z-stacking. Focus stacking is often required when using high magnification objectives due to their limited depths of field. An integrated liquid lens allows objectives to quickly and precisely focus to various object planes, expediting the process of focus stacking and allowing for rapid imaging of thick samples with minimized wasted time between images.