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    Graduate Need light with less heat for microscope

    I'm using a confocal optical (reflection) microscope to look at cryo (cold) specimens (held at below -20C). The objective is 1.4 cm from my sample, and separated from it by a couple of layers of glass, BUT NONETHELESS the light is melting away the ice in my samples, damaging them within 5-10...