More Lasertec C130 Notes

I’ve been playing around a bit more with the Lasertec microscope. Looking at the literature Lasertec microscopes are often described as “Semi-confocal” this explains the lack of a galvo or anything that I could see that would deflect the light in X and Y:

So I suspect that the silver box at the top of the unit is the AOD and the detect (which is after all marked “slit detector”) is a silt detector!

I decided to pull out the CCD:

And cram a different sensor into the vacated void:

This for taking epi-illuminated images, this works somewhat reasonably: