Re: help for optical table choice

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Dear Craig,

 

We use it for ‘simple’ confocal microscopy. We are located in a city, close to a railway station,  we have some centrifuges running next door, our facility is on the 2^nd floor (not my idea to build it there), so we never reached anywhere near the resolution specs until we switched to active dumping.

 

jens

 

From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Craig Brideau
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If I might ask, what application were you using that you required active damping?  I haven't heard of this a whole lot outside of AFM and the semiconductor industry, although I see it is becoming more popular for highly sensitive applications.

Craig

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Hello Jean-Pierre,

we got excellent results with the TS series tables from
http://www.hwlscientific.com/ (no commercial interest) in an environment
where all kinds of passive dumping have failed. You may want to include
these into your evaluation.

Best, jens

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Hi,

I'm shopping for an optical table for a new confocal / 2photon
microscope
and  FCS setup and I was wondering what kind of grade I need.
Indeed for the 2 photon microscope that we have here ((the new one is
for
another place) , we have  a TMC 784 series (maximum dry damping) table.
I
saw somewhere that this table is equivalent to the RS 4000 series from
NEWPORT.
So I was wondering if this grade is really necessary for a confocal
microscope and FCS system. Or if  as long as I have pneumatic legs, a
RS2000
or 783 (standard damping) would be fine ?

Thank you in advance,

JP