Re: LEDs

Posted by Craig Brideau on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/LEDs-tp4288043p4294176.html

>  I have found that the illumination from leds can be structured, and find
> that passing it through one layer of a translucent (the hazy white ones..)
> shopping bag plastic does a nice job of scrambling the structure of the
> emission pattern without much attenuation.
>
> Dale

I used a cheap ground glass diffuser, but as you say, any white hazy
material will work.  You will take a hit in power doing this, but it
is worth it to even-out the illumination.  Just buy sufficiently
powerful LEDs to compensate for the loss.

Craig