Optical Systems Resources
Explore educational content designed to help you solve the most demanding optical system challenges for a variety of applications. This resource page includes brochures, white papers, videos and more.
Brochures and Data Sheets
Imaging and Illumination Subsystems Brochure
How can you avoid the uncertainties of off-the-shelf components that may not be characterized sufficiently to define your system’s optical path? Download our Imaging & Illumination Brochure to explore optical systems designed to balance performance and cost.
The Melles Griot® Laser Autofocus System is a modular, semi-custom autofocus solution that is tunable for different objectives, sample plane reflectivity and wavelength requirements. The basic laser autofocus platform is offered for low-speed applications (required update rates < 60 Hz) and is best suited for imaging scenarios where sample tilt is minimal (or well compensated), the optical path is stable, and high sensitivity to changes in tilt is not a limiting factor.
The Melles Griot® High-Power Laser Engines are a series of compact, cost-effective, multi-wavelength light engines that can deliver uniform flat-top illumination for large field of view fluorescence imaging applications. Beam shaping is matched to the sample field of view and camera sensor geometry to maximize photon budget enabling large field of view (FOV) and high-throughput fluorescence imaging applications including Next Generation Sequencing, Next Generation Proteomics, and Spatial Biology.
Custom Microscope Objective Data Sheet
Finding it difficult to select the appropriate microscope objective for your application? Observing imaging errors at the edges of your field of view or intolerable chromatic aberration? Can’t precisely quantify or model the performance of available off-the-shelf objectives? Stop compromising! We are happy to work with you to provide a cost-competitive custom microscope objective solution that is ideally suited to your specific application.
Tech Notes
An objective lens is a critical component of a microscope which magnifies the field of view (FOV) and determines the optical resolution of the image. These multi-lens assemblies are aligned with very high accuracy to achieve resolution at or near the diffraction-limit. Explore our tech note to learn more!
White Papers
Practical Aspects of Mirror Usage in Optical Systems for Biology
“Why are there so many varieties of mirrors?” “How do I know which mirror to use for my specific purpose?” This paper seeks to answer those questions by providing practical, useful information on the specific topic of the now ubiquitous flat dielectric mirror. It also outlines some of the key design considerations and specifications one should consider when selecting the appropriate flat mirror for an optical system used in biology.
Many fluorescence-based instruments need to analyze or image large areas quickly — from flow cells and multi-well plates, to the entire field of view of a microscope. Explore our ideal solution for an illumination source that provides the needed intensity over a sufficiently large field of view to reduce scanning: our Wide Field Illumination Module. It’s capable of delivering uniform, high-intensity output over a large field of view at multiple wavelengths.
