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Wednesday, November 28, 2018
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Monthly newsletter focusing on how light-based technologies are being used in the life sciences. Includes news, features and product developments in lasers, imaging, optics, spectroscopy, microscopy, lighting and more. Manage your Photonics Media membership at Photonics.com/subscribe.
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Quantitative Phase Imaging Advances Disease Detection
A combination of quantitative phase imaging and Raman microspectroscopy techniques is paving the way toward quick, automated, label-free detection of acute infectious diseases such as malaria. Treating patients with malaria involves the determination of three parameters: parasite species, parasitemia (the rate of infected blood cells), and development stage. Microscopy remains the mainstay of malaria diagnosis in most large health clinics and hospitals.
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Label-Free Microscopy Analyzes Dynamics of Cell Membranes
A new live-cell imaging technique will enable researchers to observe the formation and growth of cell membrane focal adhesions. Examining focal adhesions — cell membrane components that regulate adhesion and migration — is one of the keys to understanding how a cell proliferates, differentiates, and migrates.
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Optimizing Probe Positioning for Life Science Research
Photonics technologies enable life scientists to probe samples in the increasingly sophisticated study of processes ranging from neuron signaling to heart muscle contraction, as well as cells and cellular development. As research continues at increasingly finer levels of resolution, the requirements for optomechanical positioning become ever more demanding. Positioning equipment manipulates the probes used to interact with biological samples. This includes positioning a light probe, such as a focused laser or LED, and positioning a physical probe, such as an electrode or microsyringe.
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Powerful Femtosecond Fiber Lasers
TOPTICA Photonics Inc.
The FemtoFiber ultra series are compact lasers that work reliably after a push-button start. No water-cooling is required since simple air-cooling is sufficient for stable operation. These cost-effective and compact laser solutions provide femtosecond pulses with high average power and excellent beam quality.
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LIAD Lock-in Amplifier Detectors
Newport Corporation
Ideal for calibrated power measurement of very-low level light sources, the LIAD detectors are used in conjunction with chopped (at 18Hz) CW or quasi CW radiation. Wavelengths range from 0.15 to 12 µm, power measurement down to 300 fW, and capable of a pulsed source with a 200 Hz or higher frequency.
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pT-100 for Optimised Transmitted Light
CoolLED Ltd.
Utilising the highly successful pE-100wht technology, we have further developed our LED solutions for Transmitted Light Applications. The pT-100 launches in December 2018 and will be available in 4 variants: 1. BROAD WHITE OUTPUT - pT-100-WHT (formerly known as pE-100wht)
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Polisher for Optical Medical Devices
KrellTech
NOVA™ is multi-configurable, supporting a variety of biophotonic polishing applications from connectors to endoscopes, OCT bare fibers to image bundles, as well as custom components. NOVA™ is scalable for R&D projects, high volume production, and field maintenance.
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Optical Biomedical Imaging
Photonics Media
At last, a reference work has been compiled that offers in one place a broad survey of technologies, applications and markets for optical biomedical imaging, as only Photonics Media could produce it. This collection is a practical resource for those engaged in the research and development of relevant technologies.
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It Just Keeps Getting Better....
Lumencor Inc.
Lumencor’s new SOLA SE nIR Light Engine with added Cy7 excitation.
- Breadth: UV + visible + nIR light: 350–760 nm
- Brightness: ~ 4.0 W optical output
- Control: Light on/off and graduated intensities
- Ease: No maintenance, no consumables, mercury–free
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Alluxa Ultra Series Filters and Coatings
Alluxa
Alluxa Ultra Series Filters, including Narrowband, Dichroic, UV, IR, and Notch filters, provide the highest performance optical thin film solutions available today. For example, the Ultra Series Flat Top Narrowband filters offer the narrowest bandwidths and squarest filter profiles in the industry.
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Tunable Lens Focus Device
Applied Scientific Instrumentation Inc.
Our Tunable Lens system consists of the C60-TUNELENS- 4F assembly along with the TGTLC card of the TG1000 controller. The system lets user remotely control the focus of the system without moving the objective. C-Mounts are used to mount the C60 Tunable 4F assembly to the imaging camera and to the microscope’s photo port.
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Three scientists, from the United States, France, and Canada, have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for advances in the field of laser physics.
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A vibrational imaging tool based on optical coherence tomography (OCT) is providing new insight into how the ear receives and processes sound waves.
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Photonics Media is currently seeking technical feature articles on a variety of topics for publication in our magazine BioPhotonics. Please submit an informal 100-word abstract to Senior Editor Justine Murphy at [email protected] or use our online submission form www.photonics.com/submitfeature.aspx.
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