Adhesives for objective lenses

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Adhesives for objective lenses

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Dear listserver,

A technical question: Does anyone know what types or brands of adhesives are used to bond the multi-element glass components used in objective lenses intended for fluorescence imaging? Are they UV curing adhesives or solvent drying, or something else?

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John Oreopoulos
Staff Scientist
Spectral Applied Research Inc.
A Division of Andor Technology
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Canada
www.spectral.ca
Mark Cannell-2 Mark Cannell-2
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Re: Adhesives for objective lenses

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High John

As far as I know, UV curing with low shrinkage and fluorescence like this:
http://www.thorlabs.de/NewGroupPage9.cfm?ObjectGroup_ID=196

HTH



On 29/05/2015, at 1:33 pm, John Oreopoulos <[hidden email]> wrote:

> *****
> To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to:
> http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=confocalmicroscopy
> Post images on http://www.imgur.com and include the link in your posting.
> *****
>
> Dear listserver,
>
> A technical question: Does anyone know what types or brands of adhesives are used to bond the multi-element glass components used in objective lenses intended for fluorescence imaging? Are they UV curing adhesives or solvent drying, or something else?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> John Oreopoulos
> Staff Scientist
> Spectral Applied Research Inc.
> A Division of Andor Technology
> Richmond Hill, Ontario
> Canada
> www.spectral.ca

Mark  B. Cannell Ph.D. FRSNZ
Professor of Cardiac Cell Biology
School of Physiology &  Pharmacology
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University of Bristol
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