Re: Question on Koehler Illumination

From: mbstevens (NOXwebmasterx_at_xmbstevensx.com)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:24:51 GMT

Rainer wrote:

> I have a question related to Koehler illumination:
> As far as I understood, Koehler illumination means imaging the light
> source to the back focal plane of the microscope's objective.

No, the image of the lamp filament is on the plane of the aperture
diaphragm. Your description *might* apply the the way to set up
brightfield on some specialized scope, but I'm not sure you could still
call it Koehler. 

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