Spinning Disk (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