Re: small and variable working distance

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Hi Mike,
if you want to bring the objective as close to the object as possible maybe Scanning Near-field Optical microscopy (SNOM) could do the job.

Cheers Arne

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> -----Original Message-----
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> MICHAEL
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> Hi Martin - that's correct, I want to bring the objective very close to the
> specimen, almost touching it.
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> Dear Mike--
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> On 12/8/2011 3:05 PM, MODEL, MICHAEL wrote:
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> > Dear Confocal Microscopists - Does anyone of an objective with variable,
> down to zero, working distance? Thanks!
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> I'm not sure I'm getting the concept--do you want an objective that
> *needs* to be in contact with the specimen to be in focus?  --It might help
> me if you explained a bit more about what you're trying to do.
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> Thanks--
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> Martin Wessendorf
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