Optical microscope

The optical microscope, often referred to as light microscope, is a type of microscope which uses visible light and a system of lenses to magnify images of small samples. 

It is a basic standard tool for surface inspection and metrology on very different types of samples and fields, from biology to materials science.

Technical specifications

Manufacturer: Nikon Instruments Inc.
Model: Eclipse LV100DA

• Episcopic and diascopic illumination.
• Epi-illuminator with 100W halogen lamp (brightfield, darkfield, or polarized observations)
• Dia-illuminator with  50W halogen lamp (brightfield and polarized observation)
• Microscope objective lenses: 5x, 10x, 20x, 50x and 100x.
• Automatic x-y stage controller, 15x10mm.
• Microscope camera head (5M pixels CCD) for image and video acquisition.
• NIS-Elements Imaging Software