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The Ellis light scrambler might be detailed in one or both editions of
Video Microscopy (Inoue, or Inoue and Spring). Shinya's "super-scope" is
shown in figures 3-13 and 3-14 (pages 159 and 160) of I&S ... go to
http://www.amazon.com/Video-Microscopy-Fundamentals-Language-Science/dp/0306455315
select "Look inside" and search for "light scrambler" (no quotes).
note: the Ellis light scrambler was mostly used to provide Shinya with
homogenous illumination for his transmitted light work, such as
polarization microscopy.
You can also look for scrambler in Shinya's collected works:
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Works-Shinya-Inou%C3%A9-Microscopes/dp/9812703888
See 3rd hit (page 500 of collected works = page 393 of the paper), also
the page 835 ("we found it necessary to add another single optical fibre
scrambler").
Page 979 mentions Robert A. Knudson of Technical Video, Ltd, as the
supplier of the Fiberoptic Light Scrambler. The LFW Buyer's Guide has
this web page:
http://buyersguide.laserfocusworld.com/technical-video-ltd.html
though the web site they list www.technicalvideo.com
<http://www.technicalvideo.com/> looks informational only (so far).
George
p.s. page 978 of Collected Works refers to two generations of Shinya's
"super-scope" as "Shinya Scope 5" and "Shinya Scope 6", page 979 for
"Shinya Scope-7". I also encourage taking a spin down memory lane by
reading about the Centrifuge Polarizing Microscope section that starts
at the bottom of page 979.
On 2/25/2015 3:36 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> Listers,
> Ahh this post made me feel even older than my daily puff up the
> hill on my bicycle. First, yes, back in the day, the American
> Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) used to publish the annual
> meeting's abstract book as an extra issue of the Journal of Cell
> Biology (JCB). In those days, maybe still, the society published
> JCB, expecting a large overlap between members and attendees. In
> the days of journals bound on sheves, libraries would bind the
> extra issue in with the volume, usually at the end, sometimes by
> the month it came out. If you can find a bound copy of volume 83
> of JCB (in your library's depository?) you can probably find the
> abstract. In digital collections, these issues are not generally
> scanned and made available. Perhaps this is something that the
> ASCB could undertake? Again, back in "those" days, abstracts
> because there were published with the journal tended to be taken
> as citable objects so digitizing these records would be valuable.
>
> Next, is Gordon Ellis, a brilliant figure whose work was
> influential if not always appreciated in 'modernizing' light
> microscopy. Although published for lasers, the fiber optic
> scrambler was also helpful for filling the rear focal plane with
> any kind of inhomogeneous source, such as a mercury arc. In the
> 1980's a shop at Woods Hole commercialized this for any light
> microscope set up. It did a lovely job filling the focal plane and
> Nomarski images were beautiful.
>
> A stroll down memory lane,
> Tobias
>
>
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>> Yup, abstract. From https://www.google.com/patents/US6672739
>>
>>
>>> Prior art systems have used systems of diffusers in the laser beam
>>> path to homogenize the beam. Prior art systems such as outlined in an
>>> abstract by G. W. Ellis, "A Fiber-Optic Phase-Randomizer for
>>> Microscope Illumination by Laser". J. Cell Biol. 83, 303a (1979), have
>>> used optical fibers as beam homogenizers to convert near single mode
>>> laser beams to multimode beams for illumination systems in microscopes.
>>>
>> Have you tried a good old paper library?
>>
>> Steffen
>>
>> Am 25.02.2015 um 06:10 schrieb [log in to unmask]:
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>>> Looks like an abstract from the annual meeting.
>>>
>>> On 25/02/15 3:58 PM, "John Oreopoulos"<[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> I've never been able to find this paper either, but it is cited several
>>>> places in the literature.
>>>>
>>>> John Oreopoulos
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2015-02-23, at 1:22 PM, Pedro Almada wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> We're looking for references on the first work done with vibrating
>>>>> multimode fibers to homogenize illumination. One particular paper is
>>>>> cited
>>>>> very often in the Handbook and elsewhere:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ellis, G.W., 1979, A fiber-optic phase-randomizer for microscope
>>>>> illumination by laser, J. Cell Biol. 83:303a
>>>>>
>>>>> Checking the archives on the JCB website (
>>>>> http://jcb.rupress.org/content/83/2.toc), it seems volume 83 doesn't
>>>>> have
>>>>> such a paper. Does anyone have a copy of it they could share?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>> Pedro Almada
>>>>>
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