Confocal microscope

Confocal Microscope

The Confocal Microscopes are capable of bringing into focus, and eliminating all other light than, light coming from a specific plane of the object. This way the microscope can get cross sectional views of the object without physically cutting the object. The microscope uses a pinhole to eliminate all other light to focus on one plane.But this way the actual light received will be pretty low, so they use heavy duty lasers to beam into the object to excite them and make the produce their own light, or fluorescence. These microscopes can be used to make a 3d reconstruction of the whole object by scanning it plane by plane.