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LIGHT INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION IN THE EM ICE LS

related instruments: EM ICE

LIGHT INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION

IN THE EM ICE LS

Application Note for High Pressure Freezer EM ICE

Paul Wurzinger & Julia König, Leica Microsystems, Vienna, Austria

In the EM ICE LS the light is coupled into the high pressure chamber via a light bre and a sapphire window. The axis of the sapphire

window is directed towards the centre of the sample and tilted by 60° to the sample plane, as is represented in Figure 1.

Figure 2 shows photographs taken from the backside of a semitransparent foil mounted on the bottom side of a 6mm middle plate and

illuminated from the top. The inclination of the light path is towards the right-hand side in these images. Note that there are shades

caused by milled features on the cartridge which are necessary to guide the LN2 ow correctly (“cartridge shades”). The shades are

shifted relative to the center of the sample recess. This shift is caused by the inclined illumination and varies depending on the vertical

sample position (inuenced by spacer rings, carriers, etc.).

Figure 1: Schematic view of the light stimulation geometry; viewing direction is the cartridge axis

Figure 2: Photographs of light intensity distribution on a semitransparent foil on the bottom of a 6mm middle plate taken from the

bottom side and illuminated from the top. The light path inclination is towards the right-hand side in the images;

a: green module; b: amber module

Cartridge shades

a b

LNT Application Note - LIGHT INTENSIT Y DISTRIBUTION 3

There is a quite homogeneously illuminated area of roughly 2x2 mm2 beween these cartridge shades. This area is extended towards the

left-hand side (opposite to the illumination entrance) probably because of reections from the half cylinder and the inner surface of the high

pressure chamber.

While the photographs of Figure 2 show the qualitative illumination pattern very well, intensity measurements with a calibrated instrument are

necessary to determine the absolute illumination intensity. These were done using an OPHIR Nova II meter assembly with an PD300-TP sensor.

A foil with a 1 mm aperture was mounted in front of the sensor and the aperture was scanned in 0.5 mm steps in x/y-direction about 0.5 mm

beneath the upper half cylinder. The result is represented by a graph created with Micorsoft Excel in Figure 3. This graph is centered around the

maximum intensity measured and the shades give the relative intensity (in %) to this point. The size of the aperture causes the cartridge shades

to grow in width so that the maximum intensity here seems restricted to a 1x1 mm2 area.

The absolute intensity for sample illumination was determined using the setup described for Figure 3. As there are small variations depending

on the actual LED in a module the modules have the following intensity ranges:

Blue (λ = 460 nm): 5.5 - 8.0 mW/mm2

UV (λ = 385 nm): 5.0 - 7.5 mW/mm2

Green (λ = 520 nm): 1.5 - 2.5 mW/mm2

Red (λ = 660 nm): 2.3 - 3.3 mW/mm2

Amber (λ = 590 nm): 0.8 - 1.1 mW/mm2

Figure 3: Excel-Representation of the Intensity distribution (UV module) measured with a 1mm aperture in steps of 0,5

mm in x and y in the central part of the sample position; The axis are centered around the point with maximum intensity.

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