LSM 510 – from the Pioneer of Laser Scanning Microscopy.
Backed by more than 150 years of innovation in optics and more than 15 years of experience in all applications of laser scanning microscopy, the LSM 510 is the perfect synthesis of confocal microscopy and a powerful, motor-driven research microscope – either the upright Axioplan 2 or the inverted Axiovert 100 M. Everything from Carl Zeiss.
Non-contact scanning.
The LSM 510 opens up the third dimension to materials research and quality inspection. By reflected light, it depicts, registers and measures minute surface textures in a non-contact, nondestructive fashion. Without lengthy specimen preparation. Without requiring a high-vacuum system. Leaving your specimens or components intact. Saving time and cost. And that is not all: the LSM 510 makes many engineering materials reveal their microstructures in depth, down to a few hundred micrometers below the surface, thanks to autofluorescence. Where this is lacking, fluorescent markings can help to illuminate deep holes and microfissures.
Brilliant, laser-sharp images.
The LSM 510 resolves no less than 2048 x 2048 pixels. Together with scanning fields of unbeatable size, this allows you to image even large overview pictures without losing any information. Four independent 12-bit analog-to-digital converters providing up to 4096 brightness levels give you ample control and variation capability to optimize a wide range of images.
The LSM 510 comes with tailor-made software for full system control. With all controls motorized, fully automatic materials testing is exceptionally easy, and routine jobs can be performed efficiently. To reproduce results at any time, day after day, all you need to do is to press a button. You can save and reload a set of operating variables, including complex examination procedures.
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Magnetic layer, applied by silk-screen printing. Confocal beam path for reflected light. |
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Operating simplicity at two levels.
Confocal microscopy has its own laws. It is useful to know them, but if you don’t, it’s no problem either: The LSM 510 software offers you two levels of operation: the plain version of the operator interface guides you to the correct results with a minimum of instructions, graphical user prompting, and automatic setting of many parameters – the ideal tool for day-to-day routine. Simply follow the system’s recommendations, or override them manually as your specimens require. The expert level provides in-depth control for individual settings of functions and parameters – the perfect tool for the advanced user working with unusual specimen structures.
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Display window and menu bar of the LSM510 Topography software package. |
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Abundance of presentation modes, enhancements, measurements.
The optional LSM Topography package converts, within seconds, a stack of confocal image slices into the type of view that reveals the most details of interest. Whether 3D or profile presentation, surface rendering or gradient mode, you can print the image out on paper or record it on film. Minor corrections? No problem. Rotate, expand, invert or tilt the image. Filter it, enhance its color, convert it to black & white, or apply user-defined height color coding. Add contours, XYZ or XY scales. The choice is yours. Once you have the optically perfect image you want, you can delve into quantitative details: measure distances, heights, curvature radiuses, angles, areas, volume shares, roughness characteristics – all of this is fully integrated in the LSM 510 operator interface for interactive processing.
LSM 510 – The Ideal Materials Tester.
Clockwise from above left: open-cell foam ceramics; drawing die for bond wires; photoresist, UV-exposed, projectiononto a plane; polyethylene fiber using reflected light (left) and flourescence (right).
Technical Specifications:
view Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy application note
view EC Declaration of Conformity
