4Deep Desktop Microscope User Manual

Summary of Desktop Microscope

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    Desktop microscope user guide version 1.1.0 4deep inwater imaging 6589 chebucto road halifax, nova scotia b3l 1l9 canada tel: (902) 444-4449 info@4-deep.Com www.4-deep.Com 1.

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    Contents 1 introduction 3 2 general safety information 3 3 what’s in the box 3 4 the microscope and its components 3 4.1 camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.2 sample stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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    1 introduction congratulations on your purchase of the desktop microscope. Your microscope comes from a line of instruments that all operate under proprietary digital inline holography technology plat- form, developed by 4deep. With its new and unique method of data acquisition and analysis, this sy...

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    Figure 1: main view of the desktop microscope 4.1 camera (a) ssd scale on the opposite side figure 2: the camera vertical control knob the the digital camera included with the microscope is capable of 15 fps at full (2048x2048) resolution. It is mounted to a translation stage which is controlled by ...

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    4.2 sample stage the sample stage has two separate control knobs, one located next to the laser power switch which controls the vertical (z) transla- tion stage shown in fig. 4, and a second set of vertically aligned knobs on the other side of the microscope which control the x-y transla- tions of t...

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    5 microscope setup the desktop microscope system is completely assembled and requires only the supplied power cable and cat5e communication cable to operate immediately. 5.1 step 1 plug the 12 vdc camera power cable into the outlet shown in fig. 3 on page 4. Some models of the desktop microscope wil...

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    The basic principle of digital in-line holographic imaging the reconstructed images can be further analyzed, saved, or assembled into the volume re- constructions based on the application. 7 software the holograms acquired by the desktop microscope camera need to be properly processed in order to re...

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    The distance between the camera sensor and the point source - source to screen distance (ssd) of the desktop microscope is adjustable. Contact 4deep for the development of custom configurations for special applications. In order to achieve accurate images, inline holography requires that a reasonabl...

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    11 specifications resolution 0.5 micron power 5 watts footprint 36 cm x 15 cm weight 4 kg data transfer gigabit ethernet computer operating system windows xp or later communication & power ethhernet & 12 vdc hologram size from 2048x2048 to 512x512 frame rate from 16 to 50 fps list of figures 1 main ...