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Purchasing Advisor for Microscope Objectives

Find all you need for professionally buying microscope objectives: a comprehensive expert-curated directory of suppliers, scientific and technical background information, and an interactive AI-based tool with guidance for a structured decision process.

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Related product categories: microscopes, lenses

Microscope objectives are critical components for achieving high performance in microscopes. Key specifications include magnification and numerical aperture, the latter determining the resolution limit. Quality objectives enhance the clarity and detail of microscopic images.

Interactive Purchase Decision Tool

Purchasing high-value photonics products is a substantial responsibility. Using a structured decision-making process and high quality supplier data helps a lot:

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How Responsible Purchase Decisions for Expensive Goods Like Lasers Are Done Explanations on this purchasing tool

Go through the process:

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive learning resources of RP Photonics:

encyclopedia article microscope objectives lenses focal length

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you purchase.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying microscope objectives. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for microscope objectives. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

4. Document the decision process

It is essential to document your purchasing process, not only its result (chosen supplier):

  • You will find it easier next time.
  • If something goes wrong, you can defend your decision by showing that you properly considered all important aspects. Or you see what needs to be done better next time.

Our interactive tool makes it easy: Fill out the form, and in the end print it to a PDF. Note that the document will show all sections (including those not currently shown on the screen), while omitting some irrelevant details such as the page navigation.

Suppliers for Microscope Objectives

34 suppliers for microscope objectives are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 4 present their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Thorlabs
43 Sparta Avenue
Newton, NJ 07860
United States
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microscope objectives

Thorlabs’ extensive portfolio of microscope objectives includes a variety of infinity-corrected dry, oil, and water immersion objectives for use with UV, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths. Our super achromatic objectives are available in magnifications ranging from 1X to 15X and provide excellent axial color correction across the visible range; for multiphoton microscopy applications, our TL10X-2P and TL15X-2P apochromatic objectives provide additional transmission out to 1300 nm. We also offer high-power focusing objectives, which are designed to focus on-axis laser beams to a diffraction-limited spot and are well-suited for applications such as laser cutting or engraving.

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Your Custom Optics Expert

Shanghai Optics Inc.
425 Main St Suite 2E
Metuchen, NJ 08840
United States
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microscope objectives

Shanghai Optics custom microscope objectives are designed with the assistance of CAD, Solidworks and Zemax software using top quality glass having highly specific refractive indices. This enables us to produce microscope objectives that are very low in dispersion and corrected for the most of the common optical artifacts such as coma, astigmatism, geometrical distortion, field curvature, spherical and chromatic aberration.

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Avantier
1100 US-22
North Plainfield, NJ 07060
United States
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microscope objectives

The objective lens is the most important part of a microscope and plays a central role in imaging an object onto the human eye or an image sensor for discerning the object’s detail. Microscope objectives are ideal for a range of science research, industrial, and general lab applications.

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The Future Depends on Optics

Edmund Optics
101 East Gloucester Pike
Barrington, NJ 08007
United States
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microscope objectives

Edmund Optics offers a wide variety of microscopy components including microscope objectives, inverted and stereo microscopes, or optical filters that are ideal for use in microscopy setups. Microscope objectives are available in a range of magnifications and include infinity corrected, finite conjugate, and reflective objectives in industry leading brands such as Mitutoyo or Olympus. Microscope objectives are ideal for a range of research, industrial, life science, or general lab applications. Microscopy filters are ideal for isolating specific wavelengths in fluorescence imaging applications.

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Other Suppliers

AOS Optics Co., Ltd
China
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ASE Optics Europe
Spain
Bresser GmbH
Germany
Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
Germany
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Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
Germany
Cole-Parmer Instrument Cmopany, LLC
United States
CPG Optics
China
CVI Laser Optics
United States
Data Optics Inc.
United States
GMP SA, Büro Zürich
Switzerland
Holmarc Opto-Mechatronics
India
Hyperion Optics
China
IL Photonics
Israel
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Leica Mikrosysteme Vertrieb GmbH
Germany
Meuser Optik GmbH
Germany
Navitar Inc.
United States
Nikon Corporation
Japan
Olympus Corporation of the Americas
United States
Optico AG
Switzerland
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Optimal Optik Ltd.
Hungary
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Opto GmbH
Germany
PIKE Technologies
United States
Prolog Optics
Israel
QuantumDesign Europe GmbH
Germany
Radiant Vision Systems Global HQ
United States
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SPOT Imaging Solutions
United States
The Imaging Source Europe GmbH
Germany
Thermo Fisher Scientific
United States
Hangzhou ToupTek Photonics Co., Ltd.
China
Universe Kogaku (America), Inc.
United States
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