Abstract
The first light source used for microscopy was the sun and the second was a candle flame. Both are hot plasmas that emit essentially black-body radiation (Fig. 6.1) with the addition of a few elemental lines. The introduction of light sources powered by electricity, both arcs and incandescent filaments, added a new level of convenience and flexibility but required improvements in the light-harvesting optics needed to illuminate the imaged area with light that was both intense and uniform.
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Nolte, A., Pawley, J.B., Höring, L. (2006). Non-Laser Light Sources for Three-Dimensional Microscopy. In: Pawley, J. (eds) Handbook Of Biological Confocal Microscopy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-45524-2_6
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