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- Over 1000 new stock numbers for Spring 2012. From OD 6 filters and filter kits to SWIR lenses and cage system components, browse and buy now!
- If modularity and flexibility is what you need, then we have the perfect mechanics for you. Finally arrived! Buy TECHSPEC Optical Cage System components.
- Coated from 800nm – 1.8μm and designed to cover large 25mm sensors for SWIR imaging applications, use high precision TECHSPEC SWIR Fixed Focal Length Lenses.
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What's New in the Tech Library?
- Optical Microscopy Application: Brightfield Illumination - Brightfield illumination yields dark objects on a bright background. The simplicity of this technique is the main reason why it is so popular in optical microscopy.
- Optical Microscopy Application: Darkfield Illumination - Darkfield Illumination is useful for unstained specimens or images that require increased contrast. Read all about it in this application note.
- Optical Microscopy Application: Phase Contrast - Phase contrast enhances the contrast of transparent specimens, yielding high-contrast images of living cells, microorganisms, and other samples. Learn how to analyze and record the dynamics of intricate biological processes.
- Optical Microscopy Application: Fluorescence - Fluorescence microscopes use excitation energy to illuminate a sample which then emits a quantifiable wavelength energy. Fluorescent proteins in the sample cause the unique emission colors.
- Optical Microscopy Application: Differential Interference Contrast - Polarization techniques in optical microscopy such as differential interference contrast are invaluable in the identification of unknown samples that exhibit birefringence.

