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Common filter blocks are named after the type of excitation filter: UV or U (Ultraviolet excitation for dyes such as DAPI and Hoechst 33342), B (Blue excitation for FITC and related dyes), and G (Green excitation for TRITC, Texas Red®, etc.). Common barrier filter colors are blue or pale yellow in the U-block, green or deep yellow in the B-block, and orange or red in the G-block.

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Cover slips affect the way light refracts from the specimen into the objective, so the objective must perform certain optical corrections to compensate. For this reason, most objectives indicate an optimal range of cover slide thicknesses that will allow the best image quality to be achieved. The optimal cover glass thickness for most objectives is 0.17 mm.

The spectra characteristics of a particluar fluorochrome can be overlayed with the spectral profile of a fluorecence filter set to aid in selecting the most appropriate filter set for any given application. Figure 7 illustrates what the spectral profile of an "ideal" filter set might look like for the given flourochrome excitation and emission specta. As you can see, the excitation filter transmits light spanning the absorbtion spectrum, and the emission filter transmits a band of wavelengths spanning the peak emission of the fluorochrome. The dichroic attenuates the exitation light and transmits only that from the emission.

Figure 7:  “Ideal” fluorescence set, including an exciter, dichroic, and emitter overlaid on example absorption (excitation) and emission spectra.

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Numerical aperture indicates the ability of a microscope objective to accept incoming light and resolve the fine structures of an object at a fixed distance. The larger the numerical aperture of a system, the narrower the focal spot and, hence, the better the resolution. The objective numerical aperture determines the brightness at which an image can be displayed, establishes a limit on spatial resolution, and directly impacts the depth of field.

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The objective lenses, in conjunction with the eyepiece, are essential for enlarging microscopic phenomena to a size that can be visualized. However, it is important to note that simply magnifying an image without enhancing its details is insufficient for providing a clear, accurate picture of the specimen. The resolving power of an objective lens is related to its numerical aperture.

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The refractive index of the imaging medium, specifically dry versus immersion liquid, affects the numerical aperture of the objective.

A cover slip is a thin square of glass used to cover the specimen on the glass microscope slide. Its main function is to flatten and hold the specimen in place to enable better viewing. They also decrease the specimen’s evaporation rate in both wet and dry mounted slides.

Once an individual exciter, emitter, and dichroic is chosen for the circumstances, they are mounted in a filter cube and are ready for use in a microscope. The schematic of a typical filter cube for an inverted microscope is illustrated in figure 8, above. Most microscopes have a slider or turret that can hold from two to four individual filter cubes. It must be noted that the filters in each cube are a matched set, and one should avoid mixing filters and beamsplitters unless the complete spectral characteristics of each filter component are known.

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In microscopy, objectives are the components responsible for collecting light from a specimen and focusing the light rays to generate a real image. Objectives derive their name from the fact that they are the closest component to the observed object. A microscope’s revolving nosepiece, or objective turret, usually contains three to five objectives that allow visualization of a specimen with different magnification levels and aperture sizes.

Magnification is the ratio of the tube lens’s focal length to the objective’s focal length, so the objective magnification is changed by increasing or decreasing the focal length of the tube lens. In general, the shorter the focal length, the higher the objective magnification. Focal length also factors into numerical aperture since the numerical aperture is a function of the focal length and the diameter of the entrance pupil.

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The excitation filter (also called the exciter) transmits only those wavelengths of the illumination light that efficiently excite a specific dye. Although shortpass filter designs were used in the past, bandpass filter designs are now used almost exclusively. The emission filter (aka barrier filter or emitter) attenuates all of the light transmitted by the excitation filter and very efficiently transmits any fluorescence emitted by the specimen. This light is always of longer wavelength (more to the red) than the excitation color. These can be either bandpass filters or longpass filters.  The dichroic beamsplitter (aka dichroic mirror or dichromatic beamsplitter) is a thin piece of coated glass set at a 45-degree angle to the optical path of the microscope. This coating has the unique ability to reflect one color, the excitation light, but transmit another color, the emitted fluorescence. Current dichroic beamsplitters achieve this with great efficiency, i.e., with greater than 90% reflectivity of the excitation along with approximately 90% transmission of the emission. This is a great improvement over the traditional gray half-silvered mirror, which reflects only 50% and transmits only 50%, giving only about 25% efficiency.

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The primary filtering element in an epifluorescence microscope is the set of three filters housed in a fluorescence filter cube (or filter block): the excitation filter, the emission filter, and the dichroic beamsplitter.

In a refractive design, multiple glass elements refract the light as it passes through the system. The glass surfaces used in refractive objectives make them prone to chromatic aberrations, and their designs are often complex in an effort to counteract these optical artifacts.

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Microscope objectives are complex, multi-element components responsible for focusing incoming light rays to generate an image. Most optical systems feature multiple objective lenses with varying magnification levels, aperture sizes, and corrective capabilities to maximize the clarity and accuracy of an image. For any given application, careful consideration of the factors discussed here is necessary for optimizing imaging capabilities and ensuring dependable results for analytical and quantification purposes. In many cases, custom-designed objective assemblies provide the best-fit solution for meeting all of a project’s requirements.

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In contrast, reflective objectives use a two-mirror system to relay the image of a specimen to the eyepiece for visualization. Since the light is reflected by a metallic surface rather than refracted by a glass surface, reflective objectives experience much lower aberrations relative to refractive objectives. Furthermore, aspherical mirror surfaces enable reflective objectives to achieve substantially higher numerical apertures. These features make reflective objectives better suited than their refractive counterparts for a range of sensitive analytical applications, including:

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Magnification refers to the degree of visual enlargement of a specimen by an optical instrument. Typically, the microscope objectives work in tandem with the eyepiece to enable magnification of an object. The total magnification can be measured by multiplying the eyepiece magnification (typically 10x) by the objective lens magnification (typically 4x, 10x, 40x or 100x). The rotatable objectives with their varying magnification powers can be interchanged as needed to deliver the appropriate level of enlargement for an object.

The focal length is the required distance between the objective lens and the top of a specimen that enables in-focus image viewing. The focal length quantifies the ability of an objective lens to focus or defocus light. For a focusing objective lens that is dry (no immersion liquid), the focal length is a positive value that indicates the distance required to focus a beam of light to a single location. For a defocusing lens, the focal length value is negative and indicates the distance from the objective lens to the virtual focus.

Microscope objectives come in specialized designs to counteract the occurrence of optical distortions known as aberrations. For example, certain objectives are corrected for chromatic aberrations, which are image distortions caused by the various wavelengths (colors) having different focal points. Objectives can also be corrected for spherical aberrations, which are focal discrepancies caused by the geometry of the lens. Some of the most common types of corrected objectives include: