Photonics Spectra: Olympus This is the syndication feed for Photonics Spectra: Olympus. https://www.photonics.com/Splash.aspx?Tag=Olympus Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:55:39 GMT Fri, 21 Oct 2022 07:00:00 GMT 1800 Combined iXblue-ECA Group Company Takes New Name: Week in Brief: 10/21/22
Following Group Gorgé’s acquisition of iXblue last month, ECA Group and iXblue announced that both companies will operate under the common brand name Exail. The company will specialize in robotics, maritime, navigation, aerospace, and photonics technologies.

HAMAMATSU, Japan — Hamamatsu Photonics and Indica Labs — a provider of quantitative digital pathology and image management solutions — formalized an agreement to maintain long-term interoperability between Indica Labs’ HALO AP software platform and Hamamatsu’s NanoZoomer family of high-speed, high-resolution scanners. As laboratories increasingly adopt digital solutions, the collaboration aims to streamline the process of integrating an...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Combined_iXblue-ECA_Group_Company_Takes_New_Name/p5/a68450 A68450 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 07:00:00 GMT
Olympus Sells Scientific Solutions Business to Bain Capital
EVIDENT is Olympus' Scientific Solutions business. It manufactures life science and industrial microscopes, videoscopes, x-ray fluorescence analyzers, and other scientific instruments.

Olympus has been a developer of microscopes for more than 100 years. The company's move reflects its previously announced intention to shift toward a medical technology focus.

In 2021, Olympus announced plans to reorganize the Scientific Solutions division into a...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Olympus_Sells_Scientific_Solutions_Business_to/p5/a68323 A68323 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:19:33 GMT
Olympus Spins Out Scientific Solutions Business
The proposed split was announced in June 2021. As a newly established, wholly owned subsidiary, Evident, which is headquartered in Japan, continues to operate independently under the Olympus umbrella.

Olympus’ Scientific Solutions business encompassed the Olympus Industrial and Life Science businesses. The reorganization will give the Scientific Solutions business the autonomy and agility to respond quickly and more flexibly to the...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Olympus_Spins_Out_Scientific_Solutions_Business/p5/a67928 A67928 Fri, 08 Apr 2022 07:00:00 GMT
Sensata Acquires Elastic M2M: Week in Brief: 02/25/22
Olympus has opened another discovery center, this one at the University of Montreal’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Brain and Learning. The facility will provide researchers access to advanced microscopy tools to study the neural basis of brain development, functions, neuroplasticity, learning processes, and the factors that disrupt and promote learning at different ages. The lab features a FLUOVIEW VF3000 upright confocal laser scanning microscope, a PhaseView Alpha3 light-sheet microscope, as well as classic inverted and electrophysiology microscopes.

CHICAGO — AKHAN Semiconductor has raised $20 million of committed capital led by strategic financial partners. In addition to the funding round, AKHAN also...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Sensata_Acquires_Elastic_M2M_Week_in_Brief/p5/a67809 A67809 Fri, 25 Feb 2022 07:00:00 GMT
Olympus Opens Discovery Center: Week in Brief: 02/18/22
Olympus opened the Olympus Discovery Center at Texas A&M Health to support research focused on treating, alleviating, and preventing human diseases. The facility provides researchers with access to cutting-edge microscopy equipment, allowing them to perform advanced imaging tasks such as deep tissue imaging and high-speed live cell imaging. These leading-edge microscopy systems support a broad range of applications in basic sciences and human disease research at Texas A&M Health.

EDINBURGH, Scotland — Researchers at the National Robotarium, a partnership between Heriot-Watt University, the University of Edinburgh, industry partners, and Edinburgh-based clinicians, have been awarded £1.25 million ($1.7 million) for...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Olympus_Opens_Discovery_Center_Week_in_Brief/p5/a67790 A67790 Fri, 18 Feb 2022 07:00:00 GMT
Olympus to Acquire Quest Photonic Devices
Olympus, in a press release, said the planned acquisition enhances its surgical endoscopy market presence. Quest offers advanced fluorescence imaging systems for the medical field, enabling more surgical endoscopy capabilities compared to conventional imaging technologies.

Fluorescence imaging refers to special light imaging technologies that use the properties of fluorescent dyes directed to specific anatomical structures. When targeted dyes combine with specific light wavelengths, lesions that are nearly invisible under normal white...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Olympus_to_Acquire_Quest_Photonic_Devices/p5/a66645 A66645 Mon, 01 Feb 2021 07:00:00 GMT
Olympus Announces Sale of Imaging Business https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Olympus_Announces_Sale_of_Imaging_Business/p5/a65929 A65929 Tue, 07 Jul 2020 14:58:42 GMT Olympus Objectives Named this Year's Gold Edison Award Winner
Designed with new manufacturing technology that creates lenses with shapes that are difficult to fabricate using other methods, Olympus’ X Line objectives improve optical performance in three areas:

• Expanded flatness for uniform images from the center to the edge with an observation area 1.7× greater than conventional objectives.

• Color accuracy during brightfield and multicolor fluorescence imaging with chromatic aberration from violet to near-infrared...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Olympus_Objectives_Named_this_Years_Gold_Edison/p5/a65752 A65752 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:41:13 GMT
Olympus Announces Light Microscopy Image Awards
Olympus has announced the winners of its first Global Image of the Year Life Science Microscopy Award.

The winning image, captured by Ainara Pintor of Spain using a superresolution confocal microscope system. The image shows the immunostaining of a Thy1-EGFP mouse brain slice with two fluorophores. In green, the excitatory hippocampal neurons, which express green fluorescent protein under Thy1 promoter. In red, fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) protein revealed with Alexa Fluor 594 antibody. In blue, cell nuclei labeled with DAPI. Courtesy of Olympus.
Ainara Pintor of Spain earned first place for her vibrant image of an immunostained mouse brain slice with two fluorophores, titled “Neurogarden.”

“There...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Olympus_Announces_Light_Microscopy_Image_Awards/p5/a65670 A65670 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:18:52 GMT
Olympus Invites Entries for Global Light Microscopy Image of the Year
Olympus has launched its first Global Image of the Year Life Science Light Microscopy Award, expanding upon the Image of the Year European Life Science Light Microscopy Award, which began in 2017. Those interested in entering the contest may do so through Jan. 31, 2020. Winners of the contest will be selected by a jury and announced in March 2020.
The 2018 European Life Science Light Microscopy Award’s winning image was taken by Håkan Kvanström and shows the shell of a marine snail covered in algae and cyanobacteria. Courtesy of Olympus.

The jury consists of global representatives from both science and the arts, including photographer Ron Caplain; Geoff Williams, a bioimaging facility manager at Brown University;...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Olympus_Invites_Entries_for_Global_Light/p5/a65036 A65036 Tue, 20 Aug 2019 05:00:00 GMT
Silicone Immersion Objectives Answer the Call for Higher Resolution
Refractive index mismatch, and resulting spherical aberration, has historically plagued researchers interested in long-term, live-cell imaging at high resolution. The use of silicone oil objectives helps mitigate this mismatch as the refractive index of live cells (n = 1.38) is much closer to that of silicone oil (n = 1.4) than that of either traditional immersion oil (n = 1.52) or water (n = 1.33).

When used as an immersion medium, silicone oil greatly reduces spherical aberration, which is the inability of light rays to come to a single focal point in Z. As a result, brighter and higher-resolution 3D images of live cells and living tissue can be acquired, especially at deeper sample depths. Furthermore, silicone immersion...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Silicone_Immersion_Objectives_Answer_the_Call_for/p5/a62540 A62540 Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:31:34 GMT
Olympus Discovery Center Opens at McGill
The partnership aims to advance microscopy and imaging-based research in Montreal while supporting researchers in their work. The equipment at the center will enable researchers to carry out a wide variety of life science imaging experiments and give students an opportunity to learn advanced microscopy techniques.

Some of the first studies that will be pursued using the new equipment include confocal imaging of human brain cells impacted by early-life adversity; characterization of microglia, the brain’s...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Olympus_Discovery_Center_Opens_at_McGill/p5/a61847 A61847 Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:00:00 GMT
Olympus Microscopes Receive iF Design Awards
Olympus Corp.’s Scientific Solutions division has received two iF design awards for its CX23 upright microscope and FLUOVIEW FV3000 confocal laser scanning microscope.

“We are delighted to have won two of these renowned awards,” said Wolfgang Hempell, Olympus Europa’s head of vertical market life science for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. “The fact that they have been awarded to two very different microscopes in our life science range demonstrates our commitment to improving our customers’ workflows with our detailed attention to high-performing functionality and user-friendly, ergonomic design that is reflected across our entire range.”

Founded in 1953, iF is an independent design...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Olympus_Microscopes_Receive_iF_Design_Awards/p5/a61785 A61785 Wed, 08 Mar 2017 08:00:00 GMT
Application Note: Digital Light Microscopy Reveals Mechanical Properties of Bone
Digital light microscopy has been demonstrated as a faster, easier method for conducting microindentation analysis — a tool often used to investigate the mechanical properties of materials such as bone.

Microindentation analysis of cross-sectioned bone samples can reveal differences in bone quality and fracture mechanisms. Since bone consists of a spongy structure, it is imperative to control the position of indentations using high-resolution imaging, ensuring that only the bone matrix was subject to indentation, rather than voids, pores or the polymer used for embedding the samples.

A team of researchers led by Dr. Björn Busse at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf had been using scanning electron...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Application_Note_Digital_Light_Microscopy/p5/a58204 A58204 Fri, 22 Jan 2016 08:00:00 GMT
Peering into the Nanoworld with Optical Microscopy
From brain mapping to breaking the laws of physics, optical microscopy has made huge leaps forward in recent years. But as new dimensions open up, it’s clear the real work has only just begun.

Last year yielded a bumper crop of Nobel Prizes for microscopy innovations. Thanks to advances in optical components and the labeling specificity of fluorescent probes, scientists now have a significantly more powerful tool, offering glimpses deeper than ever into the molecules that make life tick.

It was long believed that optical microscopy would never obtain resolution better than half the wavelength of light. To most scientists, this was an accepted and logical fact. But defying the laws of physics is just the kind of research...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Peering_into_the_Nanoworld_with_Optical_Microscopy/p5/a57251 A57251 Sun, 01 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT
Judges Named for Olympus BioScapes Competition
Four widely respected researchers in the fields of microscopy and imaging have joined the judging panel for the 10th annual BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition, Olympus announced last week.

A panel including James E. Bear, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Brian Matsumoto, Ph.D., professor emeritus of the University of California, Santa Barbara; Alison J. North, Ph.D., of The Rockefeller University in New York City; and Lei Zhu, Ph.D., of Florida State University in Tallahassee will gather later this month to review more than 2000 life science images and movies submitted to the contest from around the world.

Ralph Grimm of Jimboomba, Queensland, Australia, won first place in the 2012...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Judges_Named_for_Olympus_BioScapes_Competition/p5/a55063 A55063 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT
Peter Call Joins CoolLED Sales Team
Peter Call has been named field sales manager at LED lighting products manufacturer CoolLED Ltd.

Call brings to the position microscopy and imaging experience and will be responsible for customers in Central and Eastern Europe.

He has held positions at several microscopy companies, including Bio-Rad, Leica, Nikon and Olympus. Before that, he was the chief biomedical scientist in histopathology at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

For more information, visit: www.coolled.com]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Peter_Call_Joins_CoolLED_Sales_Team/p5/a54146 A54146 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT
Navitar Life Sciences Buys Modulation Optics
Modulation Optics, located in Glen Cove, N.Y., makes Hoffman Modulation Contrast microscope components and systems for use in live-cell imaging applications such as stem cell imaging, cancer studies, and embryo and sperm monitoring during in vitro fertilization procedures. Originally developed by Robert Hoffman, the technology is widely used to view colorless and transparent biological specimens.

“HMC technology has enabled an enormous expansion in live cell imaging capabilities,” said Julian Goldstein,...]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Navitar_Life_Sciences_Buys_Modulation_Optics/p5/a47069 A47069 Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT
Till Photonics Hires Microscopy Sales Director
Ulbrich comes to Till after serving as an imaging application specialist and product manager at Olympus. Prior to that, he worked at LabPrints LLC as its director of sales. He has also held positions at AutoQuant Imaging, first to promote the adoption of blind deconvolution, then as its international business manager.

In addition, he has held positions at General Electric, Watkins Johnson Co. and Fryer Co.

For more information, visit: www.till-photonics.com]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Till_Photonics_Hires_Microscopy_Sales_Director/p5/a45772 A45772 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT
Tessera Licenses Patents to Olympus Imaging
Under terms of the agreement, Olympus will be licensed to Tessera’s patents for red-eye reduction and removal technology.

“Tessera is pleased Olympus, a leading member of the global digital still camera industry, has signed its license agreement with us,” said Henry R. Nothhaft, chairman and CEO of Tessera. “We continue to make our innovative technologies widely available to our served markets.”

For more information, visit: www.tessera.com]]>
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Tessera_Licenses_Patents_to_Olympus_Imaging/p5/a45457 A45457 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT