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The phrase "optical microscope" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when referring to a microscope that uses visible light and lenses to magnify an object. For example, "The scientists used an optical microscope to examine the cells in greater detail."
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optical microscope
noun
Synonym of light microscope
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And we identified suitable MoS2 flakes using an optical microscope.
(a) Optical microscope image of the fabricated device.
Fracture mode was assessed by optical microscope.
These results are experimentally verified using an optical microscope.
"We started with submicron flakes, barely seen even in an optical microscope," he says.
Rogers, E. T. F. et al. A super-oscillatory lens optical microscope for subwavelength imaging.
(a) Optical microscope image of a typical device used in our experiments.
That's smaller than an optical microscope can ordinarily resolve using white light.
(b) An optical microscope image of LSG-MSC16 shows interdigitated fingers with 150-μm spacings.
Viewed through an ordinary optical microscope, they twinkle like stars in a moonless sky.
Images were taken from an optical microscope (Nikon Eclipse TS 100) at 20× augmentation.
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