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Axioscope A1 Upright BioMed Microscope

More Functional. More Economical.

Axioscope A1 fluorescence microscope

All new. All integrated. With this innovative light source, Axio Scope sets new trends in routine fluorescence microscopy.


The adaptable all-round stand for your routine and research applications – your microscope down to the last detail.

Customized microscope configurations because of consistently implemented modularity. With its unusual flexibility, Axio Scope from Carl Zeiss can be used universally – and is yet individually tailored to your applications.

More economical than ever because you only buy what you need at the moment. You have the option of extending your microscope to meet your growing demands tomorrow. Equally deeply impressing: the cost benefits and the performance. Axio Scope – the latest generation upright routine microscope.

Fluorescence: Configure Today. Adapt Tomorrow

The new fluorescence grows with your demands.

Axioscope A1 reflector slider, reflector turret or ISCP

Inserting the reflector slider, reflector turret or ISCP into the infinity space (here: of the Vario stand) is a single, simple push.

FluoresScience is the name of the new Carl Zeiss initiative focused on the development of excellent fluorescence techniques.

Retrofittable to meet your needs: the reflected-light beam path Axio Scope is exquisitely equipped for fluorescence:

  • The completely redesigned reflected-light beam path convinces by outstanding contrast and excellent suppression of stray light..
  • Here again you profit from the flexibility of the modular system.
  • The adjustment tool for setting the HBO lamp can be obtained later and retrofitted by yourself.
  • The same applies to the achromatic system, which ensures even better results in multichannel fluorescence applications.

Unique in this class: the interface in the infinity space

Axioscope A1 HBO 50 illuminator

As simple as never before: lamp change in the newly designed HBO 50 illuminator.

Axio Scope allows you to select the reflector turret or slider you require for your applications. They are quick and easy to attach and give you the flexibility you need.

You can choose between a 2-position slider, a 4-position turret and a 6-position turret. By the way: As a further extra exclusive to Axio Scope, the interface can also be used as a camera port for transmitted-light applications.

Versatile and innovative: the light sources

The HBO 50 illuminator has been completely redesigned. Its lamp can be removed with the drawer for exceptionally easy, convenient exchange. The HBO 100 is available in a standard and a self-adjusting version.

As an alternative to the HBO lamps, there is the HXP 120 – a long-life, adjustment-free metal halide illuminator with an integrated fast shutter, which can be easily controlled with a manual or pedal switch or by AxioVision.

LED Fluorescence: All New. All Integrated

Merits of LED illumination

Extremely durable, cost-effective, convenient to handle and requiring no adjustment whatsoever. The LEDs will save you laborious lamp changes for a very long time, since they are on only when they are actually used in the beam path.

The reflected-light illuminator can be freely loaded with up to four LED modules. Thanks to synchronized switching with the reflector turret, the proper LED is turned on automatically whenever a new reflector module is swiveled into the beam path.

You can control intensity separately for each color. Your settings are maintained when you switch between LEDs. Thus, each of your fluorescence channels is optimally illuminated at any time – a significant plus.

Open for Colibri, the high-end LED fluorescence illumination
Colibri is an alternative light source that is completely integrated in the AxioVision microscope software and allows you to automatically acquire multichannel fluorescence images – on a completely manual microscope stand!

Transmitted-Light Methods

Axioscope A1  Microscope Infinity Space Camera Port

ISCP – the Infinity Space Camera Port – simply insert it at the interface in the infinity space. A camera port for transmitted light, independent of the tube, and retrofittable any time later.

LED or halogen. Phase contrast or DIC.
Never before did a microscope of this class offer as many capabilities.

Whether unstained cells, stained histology sections or ground bone sections: now as before, transmitted-light methods are mainstream for many clinical examinations. The interfaces newly designed for Axio Scope are unique. They add unprecedented flexibility to routine microscopy.

All contrast methods

The great diversity of contrast methods Axio Scope makes available for your applications is surprising for this microscope class: the classical methods of brightfield, darkfield and phase contrast as well as differential interference contrast (DIC) and – for the first time in any upright microscope – PlasDIC, the low-priced interference contrast alternative from Carl Zeiss.

LED or halogen? The standard illuminations

Optimized for different light source geometries, there are three lower stand parts to choose from.

  1. For transmitted-light LED: Economic, long-life and adjustment-free solution providing sufficient intensity for stained histology specimens and other typical tasks in clinical routine.
  2. With 50-W reflector illumination: Delivers abundant light for all standard methods such as brightfield or phase contrast.
  3. For the 100-W halogen lamp: Ideal for thick specimens, and methods requiring a lot of light such as DIC at high magnifications.

ISCP: the Infinity Space Camera Port

For all documentation assignments in transmitted-light applications. Available only with Axio Scope. This innovative feature offers you an extra option of using the interface in the infinity space. Use it for your transmitted-light applications instead of the reflected-light reflectors, and gain a fully functional camera port that is independent of the tube and can be retrofitted at any time.