The optical microscope, also referred to as a light microscope, is a type of microscope that commonly uses visible light and a system of lenses to generate...

a sample using a probe. The most common microscope (and the first to be invented) is the optical microscope, which uses lenses to refract visible light...

A fluorescence microscope is an optical microscope that uses fluorescence instead of, or in addition to, scattering, reflection, and attenuation or absorption...

The stereo, stereoscopic or dissecting microscope is an optical microscope variant designed for low magnification observation of a sample, typically using...

lens, but also by the optical properties of the specimen. The thin optical sectioning possible makes these types of microscopes particularly good at 3D...

with a resolution of λ0/60. A decade later, a patent on an optical near-field microscope was filed by Dieter Pohl, followed in 1984 by the first paper...

petrographic microscope is a type of optical microscope used to identify rocks and minerals in thin sections. The microscope is used in optical mineralogy...

an angle of about 5.2°. By convention, for magnifying glasses and optical microscopes, where the size of the object is a linear dimension and the apparent...

a scanning electron microscope (SEM) fitted with a cathodoluminescence detector, or an optical cathodoluminescence microscope, may be used to examine...

device, such as microscopes, enlargers, slide projectors, and telescopes. The concept is applicable to all kinds of radiation undergoing optical transformation...