Multi-Port Illuminator

Combining Wide-Field and Patterned Illumination

Multi-port illuminator (MPI)

System-level drawing of a Polygon and widefield lightsource connected to the backport of an inverted microscope via MPI.

Features

• One port accepts a standard 3mm-core liquid lightguide to produce wide-field illumination
  • Customers can use their existing light source and light guide.
  • Mightex can also provide LED light sources.
• The other port accepts Polygon to produce patterned illumination
  • Standard front tube should be removed from Polygon before inserting Polygon into MPI.
  • Both “E” and “G” models of Polygon are accepted. “D” model is currently not accepted. *Older infinity-path Polygon models need to be converted to C-mount version first.
• Standard-size dichroic in interchangeable filter cube
  • Optional excitation filters can be installed in filter cube.
  • Holds one (interchangeable) filter cube at a time.

Application Examples

• Use on an inverted microscope where the back port is already occupied by a traditional epi-fluorescence illuminator, for customer who wants to keep the fluorescence imaging capability.
• Use on an upright microscope not equipped with epi-fluorescence illuminator. MPI allows for the addition of both wide-field and patterned illumination capabilities onto the microscope.
• Use on Mightex OASIS Macro/Micro/Implant systems. MPI provides additional flexibility in system configuration.