LEICA DMRE second serial port and epifluorescence shutter control

[Cohen, Ethan D]

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I have a Leica  MP (SP2 vintage) multiphoton which controls a Leica DMRE upright motorized microscope stage via your typical RS232 serial port on the mid back scope panel.

Q1: Is there any way to make the multiphoton SW control the DMRE upright epifluorescence light like you can do on a DMIRB  inverted scope which has a shutter built on the arc lamphouse?

I have seen various Leica MP confocal rigs with the shutters and a fiber optic couplers connected to their DMRE fluorescence lamphouse ports.

The Leica DMRE microscope body seems to have a second serial port on the back bottom?  I am wondering if this serial port could control a RS232 Uniblitz shutter?


Thanks, Ethan

Ethan Cohen, Ph.D.
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