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The LM5 live is a line scanner.  According to our Zeiss
rep here the beam splitter is a 'line mirror' - ie a
single silvered line on a blank piece of glass.  But I
still don't see how that works since I'd have thought
that if the illuminating beam was a line the returning
beam would also have to be a line at that plane.

Guy

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>
> Ian Clements wrote:
>
>>   Particularly interesting is the fact that it uses a single
>> primary dichroic mirror that reflects and transmits all wavelengths.
>
>
> That sounds like a beam splitter to me rather than a dichroic. Is that
> right?
>
> Cheers Mark
>


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