Natural Science Forum / Physics / Optics / November 2006

Does anyone know whether the DXCs 950/990 are adaptable at an old
Olympus BHS-microscope?
I found some information about a  Sony MVA-41A microscope adapter and
MVAC-33-O coupler for BH2-microscopes. But I'm not sure if this

I would like to use my D70 on my LW Scientific Achiever.  I googled it
for a bit and got lost in the details.
I was hoping someone here could tell me:
a. Is there a relatively simple answer?

Has anybody got the figures for noise floor in a cheap B&W CCD sensor?
We need these figures for some camera modelling.
Our modelling involves the use of CCD cameras and a monochromatic
illuminator working at 760nm.

I've been using ZMAX for 10 years of more and I need to upgrade my program.
Is there a better, and less-expensive program available now ?
If so which one and why ?
Thanks,

My employer has made a policy decision to switch all pc's over to Linux
soon. Does anyone have any experience of using either GLAD or ZEMAX with a
Windows emulator (something like Wine, I suppose)?

I have (as posted before) an SP 168 with a cambridge mixed gas tube in it. I
have run it many times and had great results from it. I have just set it up
in its new permanent home at our new house, and I ran it yesterday for the
first time in 12 months. It wouldn't lase at first but ...

I write and sell and give away free versions of my optical design
software called KDP. See my signature line. The free version at my web
site is more that capable of designing and analysing any and all
optical systems of interest to any amateur astronomer so I'm not

Please advice about low-cost plastic material which is transparent to
IR radiation (8-12um). Less than 50% transparency is sufficient.
Thanks a lot
Ariel Navon

I would like to make driver for this diode as in subject, but i need some
schematics. I've searched for it on google but there is like hunderds of
schematics and some of them are pretty complicated. Anyone have some
schematics that would help me?

Does anybody know what type laserunit is mostly used in printers?

any freebie/swap/buy
chrsitmas animations going about
wheres a good resource for them?
Ideally ILDA

None of us know how much time we have.
My plan, as a little kid was to leave a mark somewhere on the world
other than on my underwear.
The result was a 20 year effort to write the KDP optical design

There must be developments that the Abbe Limit of resolution is knocked out
with a trick.
Resulutions now possible below Abbes limit. Does anybody know more ?

Can anyone helop with advice about this condenser, please? It is CZ
with the serial number 4337802.
there is an open position, marked J, a darkfield stop , marked D, and 4
phase rings, marked 2, 3,2,3.

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