Nipkow Disk Microscope

A Nipkow spinning disk microscope is one type of Fluorescence Microscope .

A Nipkow disk is simply a spinning disk with a series of equally distanced circular holes of equal diameter drilled in it. It was inveted by Paul Nipkow in 1884.

Applied to a Fluorescence Microscope , it allows the sample to be scanned with an array of light points transmitted through these holes, participating in some of the advantages of a Confocal Microscope .

A → Yokogawa Disk is a Nipkow disk with an array of microlenses in (or right after) the holes used in many commercial spinning disk microscopes.

See:

• http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/cif/spindisc.htm
• http://www.olympusfluoview.com/theory/confocalscanningsystems.html

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