Microscopía óptica for the laboratory

Optical microscopes are instruments that use visible light to illuminate and magnify a sample. These instruments feature high-precision optics that provide corrections for chromatic and spherical aberrations. Optical microscopes offer advanced illumination and contrast techniques such as brightfield, darkfield, fluorescence, DIC, polarization and phase contrast. Optical microscopes offer integration with digital cameras for documentation and software for robust analysis. Within optical microscopes are the categories of widefield microscopes, digital microscopes, zoom microscopes and stereoscopic microscopes. They also come in different types such as upright, inverted, binocular and trinocular.