critical illumination

optics

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microscopes

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    In microscope: The illumination system

    …the specimen, a technique called critical illumination. Alternatively, the image of the source is focused onto the condenser, which is in turn focused onto the entrance pupil of the microscope objective, a system known as Köhler illumination. The advantage of the latter approach is that nonuniformities in the source are…

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