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CHROMA TECHNOLOGY CORPHANDBOOK ofOPTICAL FILTERSfor FLUORESCENCEMICROSCOPYby JAY REICHMAN 2017AN INTRODUCTION TOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY 2Excitation and emission spectraBrightness of the FLUORESCENCE signalThe FLUORESCENCE microscopeTypes of filters used in FLUORESCENCE microscopyThe evolution of the FLUORESCENCE microscopeA GENERAL DISCUSSION OF OPTICAL FILTERS 8TerminologyAvailable products Colored filter glass Thin-film coatings Acousto-optical filters Liquid Crystal Tunable FiltersDESIGNING FILTERS FORFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY 14Image Contrast FLUORESCENCE spectra Light sources Detectors BeamsplittersOptical quality Optical quality parameters Optical quality r

applied to fluorescence microscopy. This guide is a compilation of the principles and know-how that the engineers at Chroma Technology Corp use to design filters for a variety of fluorescence microscopes and applications, including wide-field microscopes, confocal microscopes, and applications involving simultaneous detection of multiple

  Microscopy, Confocal