Abberior Instruments EPYCON readily converts any light microscope to a confocal with four fluorescence excitation lines:
Becker and Hickl: New PMC-150 detector has 120 ps IRF width
The Becker and Hickl PMC-150 is a cooled PMT module for TCSPC applications. It contains a fast miniature PMT along with a Peltier cooler, a high voltage generator, a GHz pulse amplifier and a current sensing circuit. Due to the high gain and bandwidth of the device a single photon yields an output pulse with an amplitude in the range of 100 to 200 mV and a pulse width of 1.5 ns. Due to the high gain and the efficient shielding noise pickup is minimised. Therefore the PMC-150 yields high time resolution and high counting efficiency.
YSL Photonics’ FemtoYL-100: high power femotosecond fiber laser
YSL Photonics’ announce the release of the FemtoYL™-100, their latest high power femotosecond fiber laser. Capable of delivering a 500fs pulse width with100uJ pulse energy, it is an ideal laser for micromachining and related applications.
Toptica TopWave: Industrial cw UV lasers
TOPTICA's new TopWave provides 150 mW output power at a wavelength of 266 nm. These specifications make this cw deep-UV laser an ideal tool for sophisticated measurement and production tasks in e.g. semicon inspection, lithography or Raman spectroscopy. It is a cost-effective and reliable turnkey system that enables the user to concentrate on their application rather than worrying about the light source. The TopWave can be operated via a touch panel control unit or via USB/Ethernet using a PC GUI.
The complete UV beam path, including the resonant doubling cavity, is enclosed in a specially sealed compartment. In combination with a fully automated shifter of the doubling crystal it enables a typical lifetime of > 10,000 hours, which is key for the use in any industrial application. Consistent beam quality (M² < 1.3) is provided by an optimized beam shaping setup which is also integrated inside the sealed UV section. To avoid contamination of the exit window in non-cleanroom environments the user can connect his purge line to the provided interface.
Raptor’s Ninox cooled Vis-SWIR camera helps advance medical imaging techniques
An exciting new paper published by one of Raptor Photonics' customers highlights how the Ninox 640 camera has helped advance in-vivo and in-vitro medical imaging. Zbigniew Starosolski and his colleagues in Children’s Hospital, Texas have been using their cooled InGaAs Ninox camera for several months, imaging in the “NIR-II” window (1000–1700 nm) enabling deeper imaging into underlying tissues. Read the paper online here.
The availability of InGaAs cameras has propelled the development of NIR-II fluorescent dyes and imaging agents for preclinical testing based on a variety of platforms including single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), quantum dot nanoparticles, rare earth doped nanoparticles, polymeric nanoparticles, and small molecule water soluble dyes. NIR-II imaging using these agents have demonstrated improved depth of penetration, thereby enabling sub-surface vascular imaging at high spatial resolution.
