ASI offers this source of information as a service to you our customers. It includes some detailed in-depth articles and technical reports that you may find to be of interest. If you are new to the field, or can use a brief refresher course, you may want to take a look at our Tutorial section which contains more generalized information.
Read the article we co-wrote on "Micropositioning for Microscopy" (from Biophotonics International® magazine, May 2003): Click Here. (1069KB pdf)
To understand why ASI products are so precise, click here.
To learn some of the advantages of our Z-axis drives, click here.
Read about ASI’s microscope auto-focus control solution: Click Here [6KB pdf]
What about when your resolution and repeatability need is significantly greater than what is
provided by the standard MS-2000 XY stage? Click Here for TechNote 101 [226KB pdf]
Interested in the ultimate resolution of an optical system? Click Here for TechNote 102 [19KB pdf]
What do you get, and what do you lose, by using an intensified CCD camera for
acquisition of low-light images? Click Here for TechNote 103 [22KB pdf]
Learn about that specification called 'Repeatability', and the tests that quantify it. Click Here for TechNote 105 [149KB pdf]
Study the Theory of Operation of the Linear Encoders we use. Click Here for TechNote 106 [252KB pdf]
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