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Keep Your Workflow Streamlined

BX51M and OLYMPUS Stream

Your time is just as important as your working conditions. That's why the BXiS system's imaging and control software can be personalized to fit your process flow. An easy-to-use interface guides you effortlessly through every step from image adjustment image capture, measurements, report creations and data basing or whatever you need to achieve. As a result, you'll find that you can complete your tasks more efficiently regardless of their complexity.

Build Your Olympus System Your Way

The fully adaptable BXiS concept shows how we're able to offer manual or automated systems that fit your needs and budget. Create and tailor your system however you wish!

Easily Expandable To Future Applications

With the BXiS system, you're prepared not only for today's applications but for tomorrow's as well. Whatever the future may bring, you'll be ready to keep up with advances in technology with Olympus BXiS system solutions.

OLYMPUS Stream Software Adapts to Your Every Requirement

User Interface Function

OLYMPUS Stream user interface

As you progress from image capture to report creation, the tool windows you need are always displayed at every stage. You can quickly and easily access control parameters.

Work flow 1 : Image Acquisition	Work flow 2 : Measurements
Work flow 3:Objective Detection	Work flow 4: Report Generation

Dynamic User Interface

Depending on your needs, you can arrange the layout of the tool window to best fit your workflow. You can create customized layouts with all the necessary functions for each activity.

Microsoft Office Integration

OLYMPUS Stream can create professional reports directly into Microsoft Word. Report templates and headers can be flexibly modified according to your company's needs. The images can be zoomed and annotated along with the metadata. Statistical analysis and graphing are also accomplished using Excel with the output easily imported into your report. OLYMPUS Stream uses a unique compression method that allows you to store view reports without the need for any unique applications software.

My Function

You can create intuitive workflows based on the most frequently used functions, simplifying repetitive tasks so that even new users are able to operate the software easily and efficiently.

The BXiS Simplifies Your Image-Acquisition Workflow

Magnification Readout

Accurate measurements depend on correct magnification settings. The BXiS provides this critical capability automatically with a manual coded system or via a fully motorized configuration. The objective lens settings are automatically reflected in the scale and measurement results displayed on the monitor and output to your reports.

Coded or motorized nosepiece ensure correct magnification calibration.

Quality Control and Traceability

For quality control and traceability purposes, the OLYMPUS Stream software creates a calibration report for important information, such as magnification and calibrated pixel values, after the initial installation. The Info Stamp created from updated calibration information can be overlaid on the acquired image and report creation.

Instant Extended Focus Image (EFI)

When combined with the OLYMPUS Stream software,Instant Extended Focus Image provides easy images for samples that extend beyond the depth of focus. The
manual EFI lets you use the smooth focus adjustment to combine many images in the z axis, providing you with one combined output that can be used for visualization or measuring in x and y.

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EFI image

Manual Multiple Image Alignment (MIA)

Multiple Image Acquisition of Platinum Wires Cross Sections

OLYMPUS Stream software provides Manual Multiple Image Alignment to enable the creation of panoramic images of samples that extend beyond the field of view. The simple step-by-step process quickly allows you to combine the images. The OLYMPUS Stream software then rapidly stitches them together, providing you an output ready for simple visualization or complex measurement.

BXiS Offers the Perfect System for Your Sample and Solution

BXiS Motorized Microscopes - BX61

BX61TRF/BX-RLAA/U-AFA2M/DP Series

With the BX61 microscope, complex operation settings such as illumination level, lens selection and aperture setting, can be set to operate from a single key, either on the microscope keypad or via the PC. This feature makes it easy to reproduce observation conditions with the touch of a single button. A variety of motorized modules, including nosepieces and illuminators, are available to provide you with the full flexibility of the BXiS.

BXiS Microelectronics Inspection Microscope - BX41M-LED

BX41M-LED/BX-AKMA-LED/DP21

The BX41M-LED has an ESD dissipation capability that protects electronic devices from static electricity, the human body, or nearby environments found in the laboratory or shop floor.

BXiS Modular Microscope - BXFM

BXFM/BXFM-ILH/BX-RLA2

The BXiS can also be adapted to special applications or integrated into other instruments. The modular construction provides for straightforward adaptation to unique environments and configurations with a variety of special small illuminators and fixturing mounts.

Choose from a Range of Objective Lenses to Customize Your System

Olympus offers a wide variety of objective lenses to suit every observation technique. You can select the right lens for your application from our family of over 150 objective lenses. Color fidelity is important for accurate, efficient inspection. The UIS2 objective lens series yields natural color reproduction by combining carefully selected high-transmittance glass and advanced coating technology.

Example Observation Images
Magnetic Head (Brightfield)	DVD (Brightfield)	Wafer (Fluorescence)	Color Filter (Transmitted)

> Click here for details about UIS2 objective lenses

Olympus Broad Range of Digital Cameras

DP73

The DP73 is a 17.3 megapixel cooled digital color camera for microscopes with pixel-shift echnology to attain ultra high resolution, high sensitivity and wide dynamic extended range function to produce contrast balanced images.

DP26

The DP26 is a 5 megapixel digital camera for microscopy with high-fidelity color reproduction and progressive scanning free from color shift, providing live images with superb quality, seamlessly integrated into the OLYMPUS Stream analysis software

DP21

This 2M-pixel color CCD camera can be controlled from a space-saving, intuitively operated hand switch that incorporates the 12 most frequently used measurement functions for efficient inspection of industrial parts.

> Click here for the Olympus' lineup of digital cameras.
> Click here for the comparison sheet of Olympus' digital cameras.

From Simple Measurements to Complex Image Analysis

Measurement

Measurement Operation

For quality control and inspection, measurement is an essential function. Even the entry-level OLYMPUS Stream Start includes interactive measurement functions such as distances, angles, rectangles, circles, ellipses, and polygons. All measured results are saved with the image files for further documentation.

Count and Measure

Object detection and size distribution measurement are among the most important applications in digital imaging. OLYMPUS Stream incorporates a detection engine that utilizes threshold methods to reliably separate objects (e.g., particles, scratches) from the background.

Materials Science Solutions

OLYMPUS Stream offers an intuitive, workflow-oriented interface for complex image analysis. At the click of a button, the most complex image analysis tasks can be executed quickly, precisely, and in compliance with most common industrial standards. With a significant reduction in processing time for repeated tasks, materials scientists can concentrate on analysis and research. Modular add in for inclusions and intercept charts are easily added at any time.

BXiS Expands to Meet Your Future Needs

Database Management

When you need to efficiently browse through thousands of images and other files created in the past, OLYMPUS Stream can streamline your workflow from image capture through data management.

The software incorporates a client-server database based on Microsoft SQL Server Express. It allows you to assign user-definable fields (creation date, project ID, parts number, deadline, and metadata) into image and other files and folders, permitting efficient data sharing and quick searches. With the flexible right-setting capability, you can confidently handle the data.

Simple Network Connections

The OLYMPUS Stream NETCAM option lets any authorized network user connect to your OLYMPUS Stream PC and visualize the same image in real time with a web browser. What's more, the DP21 also provides self-contained integration into your local network, allowing you to share your work across your office or around the world.

Windows 7 64-bit

The 64-bit edition of Microsoft Windows 7 is the new reference in operating systems. OLYMPUS Stream fully utilizes all of the advanced capabilities of 64-bit computing for your everyday tasks. You can smoothly execute advanced image processing tasks (like counting more than 2 million objects simultaneously) that were impossible before.

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BXiS Gets You the Image You Want

Darkfield

Surface mounting board

Darkfield lets you observe scattered or diffracted light from the specimen. The light from the lamp travels through ring-form illumination optics in the illuminator and is focused on the specimen. The light from the specimen is reflected only by imperfections in the z axis. The user can identify the existence of even a minute scratch or flaw down to the 8 nm level--smaller than the resolving power limit of an optical microscope. Darkfield is ideal for detecting minute scratches or flaws on a specimen and examining mirror surface specimens, including wafer.

Polarized Light

Asbestos

This microscopic observation technique utilizes polarized light generated by a set of filters (analyzer and polarizer). The characteristics of the sample directly affect the intensity of the light reflected through the system. It is suitable for metallurgical structures (i.e., growth pattern of graphite on nodular casting iron), minerals, and LCDs and semiconductor materials.

Differential Interference Contrast (DIC)

Magnetic head

DIC is a microscopic observation technique in which the height difference of a specimen not detectable with brightfield becomes a relief-like or three-dimensional image with improved contrast. This technique, based on polarized light, can be fitted to your needs with a choice of three specially designed prisms. It is ideal for examining specimens with very minute height differences, including metallurgical structure, minerals, magnetic heads, and hard-disk media and polished wafer surfaces.

Fluorescence

Particle on semiconductor wafer

This technique is used for specimens that fluoresce (emit light of a different wavelength) when illuminated with a specially designed filter module that can be tailored to your application. It is suitable for inspection of contamination on semiconductor wafers, photo-resist residues, and detection of cracks through the use of fluorescent dye. An optional apochromatic lamp house collector lens system can be added to compensate for chromatic aberrations from visible light to near-infrared light.

Infra-Red (IR)

Semiconductor circuit under silicon layer

IR observation is the preferred method of nondestructively inspecting the inside of electronic devices constructed with silicon or glass that easily transmit IR wavelengths of light. IR objectives are also used with near-infrared techniques such as Raman spectroscopy and YGA laser repair applications.

Processing Filter

Dendrite

OLYMPUS Stream has a variety of filters for edge detection, smoothing, and other purposes. You can visualize image features by enhancing and modifying with a processing filter on the acquired image. For best results, you can check or adjust the filter results in a preview display.

Transmitted Light Observation

LCD color filter

For transparent samples such as LCDs, plastics and glass materials, true transmitted light observation is available by using a variety of transmitted light condensers. You can examine your samples in brightfield, darkfield, DIC, and polarized imaging in transmitted light, all in one convenient system.

Automated 3D Image Creation (EFI)

Coin detail

Using the BX61 or external motorized focus units, you can quickly record and combine images for samples that extend beyond the depth of focus. The EFI image combines all of the individual focus levels into a single 3D image at the touch of a button. The three-dimensional image is created for visualization or three-dimensional measurement.

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