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(he/him) Light Microscopist. Tweets about microscopy 🔬, cell biology, and optics. No new posts here, but find me on bluesky: @tanner-fadero.bsky.social

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1/? I've had a few people ask me why I prefer Thorlabs posts over their cages. The argument for cages is self-defeating: supposedly they provide pre-aligned centration, but mechanical tolerances =/= optical tolerances. You end up having to put everything on kinematic mounts...

1/? I've had a few people ask me why I prefer <a href="/Thorlabs/">Thorlabs</a> posts over their cages. The argument for cages is self-defeating: supposedly they provide pre-aligned centration, but mechanical tolerances =/= optical tolerances. You end up having to put everything on kinematic mounts...