Editing Optical microscope (section)

===Other techniques===
Modern microscopes allow more than just observation of transmitted light image of a sample; there are many techniques which can be used to extract other kinds of data. Most of these require additional equipment in addition to a basic compound microscope.{{cn|date=December 2024}}
* Reflected light, or incident, illumination (for analysis of surface structures)
* Fluorescence microscopy, both:
:*[[Epifluorescence microscopy]]
:*[[Confocal microscopy]]
* [[Ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy|Microspectroscopy]] (where a UV-visible spectrophotometer is integrated with an optical microscope)
* Ultraviolet microscopy
* Near-Infrared microscopy
* Multiple transmission microscopy<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Pégard|first1=Nicolas C.|last2=Fleischer|first2=Jason W.|date=2011-05-01|title=Contrast Enhancement by Multi-Pass Phase-Conjugation Microscopy|url=https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=CLEO_SI-2011-CThW6|journal=CLEO:2011 - Laser Applications to Photonic Applications (2011), Paper CThW6|language=EN|publisher=Optica Publishing Group|pages=CThW6|doi=10.1364/CLEO_SI.2011.CThW6|isbn=978-1-55752-910-7 |s2cid=13366261 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> for contrast enhancement and aberration reduction.
* Automation (for automatic scanning of a large sample or image capture)