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- Fri Mar 22, 2019 2:59 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Micro-focusing Ultraviolet light/laser with microscope objective?
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Re: Micro-focusing Ultraviolet light/laser with microscope objective?
Wow! Lots of good ideas. Yeah, if I had taken a look at the transmission spectrum of BS glass I would have known that I couldn't put shortwave UV through it. Having looked up that information, it would seem that for shortwave UV my choices are Quartz (crystal), Fused Silica, Calcium Fluorite and Mag...
- Thu Mar 21, 2019 2:05 am
- Forum: Introduce yourself
- Topic: Hello y hola from Austin, Texas, USA
- Replies: 4
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Re: Hello y hola from Austin, Texas, USA
Howdy; Wstenberg! I have wanted, for a long time, to build a 'one-off' electronic circuitboard printer. I describe it over on the "Off Topic" forum. My biggest issue is doing it on the cheap!
Retired Lab Rat,
Austin, TX
Retired Lab Rat,
Austin, TX
- Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:58 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Micro-focusing Ultraviolet light/laser with microscope objective?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18699
Micro-focusing Ultraviolet light/laser with microscope objective?
Hello! New to this forum. I'm wondering if anyone has experience with focusing ultraviolet light through a microscope objective. I'm an inveterate tinkerer and it seems that very nearly every project that I have ever dreamed up has called for a custom made electronic circuit board. I have, for a ver...
- Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:05 am
- Forum: Introduce yourself
- Topic: Hello y hola from Austin, Texas, USA
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4994
Hello y hola from Austin, Texas, USA
As the moniker says, I'm an old retired lab rat. I spent the first thirty years of my working life in numerous engineering fields and the last two dozen years as the senior research technician for a university research institute. In that time I have worked with and repaired microscopes ranging from ...