Category Archives: Optics

Matlab for reading from ccd camera

Posted on July 20, 2011 by mt4

here’s a blog post about it [link]

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Microscopy Lamp

Posted on April 28, 2011 by mt4

For my microscope system I need me some white light.  At first I went with a high power LED from thorlabs, and instead of paying some hundreds of dollars for their driver, I built one myself for much less.  The … Continue reading →

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More on lasers

Posted on February 21, 2011 by mt4

Looking more at lasers, specifically for a 532 nm diode-pumped solid state laser, I’ve found two companies, Coherent and Klastech, that claim to solve the “green noise” problem with these.  I didn’t know there was a problem!  But apparently when … Continue reading →

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Learning about lasers

Posted on February 16, 2011 by mt4

Right now I’m shopping for a laser.  Will it be a CVI Melles-Griot, or a Klastech, or Coherent, or Newport spectra physics, or what?  The truth is I know very little about lasers, but I’m learning by necessity, which is … Continue reading →

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