Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Fiber Optic Cables under the Microscope

Microscope World had a customer that splices and connects fiber optic cables, and they needed to view these parts under a metallurgical microscope. Both the 20x and 50x objectives were used (for 200x and 500x total magnification). The fiber optic cables were viewed with standard brightfield, and with the addition of a green filter.

200x magnification viewed with brightfield.
200x magnification viewed with green filter.
500x magnification viewed with brightfield.
500x magnification viewed with green filter.