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A special objective is required that is fitted with a darkened circular ring or groove (phase plate) fitted into the glass near the rear focal plane of the objective as illustrated in Figure 1. In addition, the condenser must also be modified with special annular openings suited to a particular magnification and objective. Phase contrast objectives are segregated into a number of categories depending upon the construction and neutral density of internal phase rings:

Most microscope objectives are designed to be used with a cover glass that has a standard thickness of 0.17 millimeters and a refractive index of 1.515, which is satisfactory when the objective numerical aperture is 0.4 or less. However, when using high numerical aperture dry objectives (numerical aperture of 0.8 or greater), cover glass thickness variations of only a few micrometers result in dramatic image degradation due to aberration, which grows worse with increasing cover glass thickness. To compensate for this error, the more highly corrected objectives are equipped with a correction collar to allow adjustment of the central lens group position to coincide with fluctuations in cover glass thickness.

Not all objectives are made equal! Objectives for microscopes contain lots of very small and delicate lens to both magnify the image, as well as to perform a number of corrections (spherical and chromatic). Two main characterizations of objectives are the magnification and the numerical aperture.

In theory, the intensity of illumination depends on the square of the condenser numerical aperture and the square of the demagnification of the light source image (in effect, the field diaphragm image becomes brighter as it is made smaller, according to the square law). The result is that brightness of the specimen image is directly proportional to the square of the objective numerical aperture as it reaches the eyepiece (or camera system), and also inversely proportional to the objective magnification. Therefore, when examining specimens in transmitted light, changing the objective without altering the condenser affects image brightness in response to changes in numerical aperture and magnification.

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Correction collars are generally used to correct for spherical aberration due to variations in coverslip thickness, temperature, wavelength or for the differing refractive indices of different immersion media.

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Where F(trans) refers to image brightness of a Brightfield illuminated sample, whereas F(epi) refers to the image brightness of a fluorescence or reflected light illuminated sample.

In order to allow the microscopist to quickly identify phase contrast objectives, many manufacturers inscribe important specifications, such as the magnification, numerical aperture, tube length correction, etc., on the outer barrel in green letters. This serves to differentiate phase contrast objectives from ordinary brightfield, polarized, DIC, and fluorescence objectives which either use an alternative color code or the standard black lettering.

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There are different 'grades' of objectives which describe how many colours they are axially corrected for, and how many colours they are spherically corrected for.

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The terms F(trans) and F(epi) refer to the light-gathering power of an objective and were calculated according to the following equations:

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Image brightness is directly proportional to the objective NA and inversely proportional to magnification.  Therefore if you had two objectives of the same NA but differed in magnification, for examples the following;

Some objectives are also "Plan-" objectives, these are flat field corrected, so the image appears flat to both the eyepieces and the detector.

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The resolving power of the objective is determined by the numerical aperture (not magnification). Numerical aperture also determines the light collecting ability of the objective, the higher the NA the more light the objective can collect and is determined by the function (nSinq, Where n =  immersion media refractive index, and Sinq = angle of the cone of illumination).