Is a "Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope" the same as a SEM electron microscope? Or are these two different things?

Cause I just found someone talking about having 10nm Z-Axis and 120nm XY-Axis resolution using a Olympus LEXT OLS 4100.

And from what I read earlier this should be below what is physically possible with "white light".

That would be perfect for reading a shattered blue-ray...

Edit: No, they just use violet light. That explains it...

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It turns out that microscope has two modes. One for images with white light and another with violet light that can get down dow that scale.

So someone just mixed that up. It doesn't actually make full color images down to that scale (which would have been physically impossible).