Zeiss Grants Prairie Laser Scanning Licenses

Image scanning microscopy (ISM), a superresolution technique enabled by the advent of fast and compact detector arrays, provides signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), optical sectioning, and spatial...

A label-free microscopy technique developed by researchers at the University of Graz enables noninvasive, sub-diffraction-limit imaging of nanostructures. The all-linear, optical far-field...

ZEISS CFO Christian Müller will step down from the executive board at the end of this month. Company president and CEO Karl Lamprecht will temporarily take over CFO duties. Christian...

Optical computing company Lightmatter has appointed Ritesh Jain as vice president of engineering. This follows the recent appointments of Jessie Zhang as vice president of finance and Steve Klinger...

Helping engineers develop the scientific instruments of tomorrow. Olympus Scientific Solutions is now Evident, but our commitment to manufacturing high-quality microscopy components and optics is...

The SL160 automated microscope slide loader combines reliability and high capacity with easy setup to provide automated slide scanning to a wide variety of existing upright microscopes or with the...

The FocusX from Bruker Alicona is an optical 3D measuring device meant for applications where highly reflective surfaces, steep flanks, and complex forms must be measured. Able to measure small...

The Digital Sight 50M monochrome microscope camera from Nikon Instruments Inc. conducts high-precision analysis and large-volume sampling for use in applications such as well plate screening. ...

As recently as five years ago, shopping for a microscope light source was fairly straightforward. For routine applications, it was tungsten halogen, typically 100 W, while for fluorescence, it was an...

Laser development for the microscopy market continues to be driven by key trends in applications, which currently include superresolution techniques, multiphoton applications in optogenetics and...

NSOM is suitable for studies on the mesoscopic scale (several tens to hundreds of molecular dimensions). It has become an important tool in research and applications of semiconductors, organic layers...

An interferometer is an instrument that compares the position or surface structure of two objects. The basic two-beam division of amplitude interferometer components consists of a light source, a...

ct-dSPIM is a flexible and easy-to-use implementation of Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM) that allows for dual views (d) of large samples such as cleared tissue (ct). It is one of many...

Learn how multi-bandpass filters combined with multiple LEDs can enable versatile and compact fluorescence instrumentation.

Determining the orientation of carbon nanotubes can expose crucial structural information about the material, which can help explain its properties and potential applications. A technique used to...

Specifications for illumination systems for biomedical imaging and industrial metrology generally converge on spectral, spatial and temporal light output characteristics. This article describes some...

Fluorescence imaging in life sciences and microscopy applications has traditionally used mercury, metal halide, and xenon arc lamps for illumination. With advances in technology, LEDs are now able to...

LED illumination for fluorescence microscopy systems has progressed significantly from a time when LED sources had low optical power and a limited range of wavelengths. While the benefits of LED...

Fluorescence microscopy has revolutionized life sciences by enabling researchers to study biological samples with exceptional precision. New excitation and illumination light sources and scientific...

Optogenetics – the buzz word of the millennium! - a technique that uses light to activate or inhibit cellular activities and has increasingly gained popularity in the last five years. Most...

A galvanometric scanner, also known as a galvanometer scanner or galvo scanner, is a type of optical scanning device used to rapidly and precisely direct a laser beam or other light source to...

Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a mechanism describing the transfer of energy between two closely spaced fluorescent molecules. This phenomenon is named after the German scientist...

A set of algorithms used to study the structural and spatial characteristics of objects in a digitized image for applications including feature extraction and image segmentation in machine vision and...

A nonlinear label-free imaging technique commonly used during surgical procedures for the visualization of collagen fibers and muscle tissue (myosin) with submillimeter resolution. During the...

Introducing the experts who design and manufacture high performance LED Illumination Systems.

This hands-on session about FD-FLIM by Gerhard Holst from PCO AG was given as part of the FLIM Symposium "Beginners Guide to Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging in Life Sciences".

This Software Highlight focuses on Fast Mapping in our Ramacle software. Fast Mapping enables the user to acquire Raman maps with significantly reduced acquisition times via more efficient stage...

Explore every dimension and see every side of the story with Imaris - the world's most comprehensive microscopy image analysis software.

Andor Technology Ltd is a global developer and manufacturer of high-performance scientific cameras, microscopy systems and spectrographs for academic, government, and industrial applications. Founded...

For over 30 years, Allied Vision has helped people see the bigger picture to achieve their goals. We believe knowledge is power and always strive to deliver valuable insight with our technology...

For over 100 years, Prior Scientific has been manufacturing precision optical and electro-mechanical equipment and instrumentation. Prior is a leader in the development of precision motion,...

Photron has been a global market leader in high-end, high-speed camera systems for over forty years. The company’s continuing development of new state-of-the-art products illustrates a...