ILLUMINATOR ELEMENTS FOR CONVENTIONAL LIGHT MICROSCOPES

摘要

An illuminator element consisting of chromophores, particularly fluophores, and/or light-scattering bodies in a stable, typically a polymer plastic, matrix completely replaces an infinite set of condensers for an optical microscope, and works equally well with microscope objective lenses of any and all numerical apertures. Set of illuminator elements permit the ready production of color light(s) of any desired spectral characteristics from primary light sources that are no more sophisticated, nor any more expansive, than common electric light bulbs. Illumination fully comparable to Koehler illumination is obtained virtually effortlessly simply by placing the illuminator element near, and normally directly upon, a specimen that is typically mounted upon a microscope slide.