Microscope Incubators

The Water Jacket Incubator provides superior incubation stability above and below room temperature. Water is pumped from a water bath into the base plate and into the lid, which are both Water Jackets.Temperature is measured inside a reference Petri-dish and is controlled by circulating water from a water bath into the Water Jacket Chamber. The Temperature Controller reads the temperature in the reference well and updates the set point temperature of the water bath, ensuring a specimen temperature stability of ± 0.1°C.

Enclosure

The microscope enclosure creates a large volume around the microscope in which temperature is controlled by recirculating warm air.

It is made of polycarbonate panels and encloses microscope stage, nosepiece and objectives.  It doesn't affect focus stability.  All electronics including EMCCDs, spinning disk confocal etc. are left outside of the enclosure avoiding exposure to 37°C.

The enclosure closely follows the microscope profile and is supported by posts resting on the vibration isolation table.