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Ian Dobbie wrote:

>
> The scattering is unlikely to be caused by the META system if it is
> visible in the other channels, and the dichroics for the other detectors
> are before the start of the META optics, and so should be unaffected
> by them. Sounds like there is something scattering either in the
> microscope, or in the scan optics. Can you get a good image down the
> eyepieces? If so it would seem to be in the scan head, if not, it is
> something in the microscope itself.
>

The widefield image is fine. Since the scattering is observed even when the meta
detector is not receiving light (100% mirror reflecting to the conventional
PMTs), it is probably not due to that system. However, the scatter really
reduces the usefulness of the meta detector.

--aryeh
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Aryeh Weiss
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