Abberior Instruments 1-color STED 775 QUAD Scanning
Abberior Instruments Superresolution STED microscope with a pulsed STED laser @ 775 nm
- Confocal scanning system
- QUAD beam scanner technology
- Detector gating with up to 4 gates
- Accessible optomechanical design, open electronics and software platform, ready to implement your own imaging ideas
- Zero compromise on performance - get the best resolution performance possible in STED microscopy
We offer unrivaled flexibility in customizing the microscope to your applications
We install your turn-key Abberior STED 775 QUAD scanning nanoscope in your lab including software/handling training.
Sample: nuclear pore complex protein (gp210)
Resolution STED < 25 nm
Abberior specifications:
- Pulsed STED laser (775 nm) featuring one super-resolution STED channel
- Resolution up to 20 nm; Typical resolution < 30 nm
- Individual upgrade options, e.g. multicolor, 3D-STED, additional STED laser,... and future innovations
- Manual Olympus IX81 microscope body (or other stand on request)
- Piezo stage for z scanning
- Pulsed excitation laser (640 nm)
- 1-color LED widefield illumination
- choose between a monochrome widefield camera or an ocular
- Abberior QUAD scanner: novel scanner design with 4 galvo mirrors provides 4 degrees of freedom for independent position and angle settings; line frequency up to 2 kHz
- Abberior Patch Panel for interfacing additional custom devices (e.g. lasers etc.)
- Suitable for superresolution imaging with organic dyes such as Abberior STAR 635P or ATTO 647N
- Up to 8 time gating channels with <80 ps time resolution
- Up to 4 pulse-timing channels with <80 ps time resolution
- Imspector image acquisition and data analysis software (includes smoothing, deconvolution, etc.)
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