objective mini lens

The "objective mini lens" is a weakly excited lens placed below the objective lens. This lens does not have a polepiece to strengthen a magnetic field as the objective lens does. This lens is used to form an image on the selector aperture in Low MAG mode (～50× to 3,000×) by stopping the excitation of the objective lens. The magnification at the objective mini lens is 1× to 2×. This lens is also used to obtain a high quality low magnification image of about 1,000× in the MAG mode. That is, the excitation of the objective lens is kept strong to maintain image quality of the objective-lens, and the image is demagnified (to ～0.5×) by the objective mini lens, thus a wide view image is formed on the object plane of the intermediate lens.

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