Affymetrix Inc.

IDEX Corp. appointed Katrina Helmkamp nonexecutive chair of its board of directors, effective Oct. 1. Helmkamp has served as an independent director and member of the IDEX board since 2015 and as a...

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory reported that the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) x-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) has produced its first x-rays following a $1.1 billion upgrade. The...

NASA’s Lunar Flashlight has communicated with mission controllers and confirmed it is healthy after launching Dec. 11 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The satellite embarked on a...

Space optical communications developer TESAT partnered with EAGLE-1 consortium lead SES, a provider of ground and satellite operations, to develop and integrate the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)...

The IS50A-1KW-RMT from Gentec-EO is a high-power joulemeter for laser energy measurement up to 1 kW average power. Designed to meet the requirements of high average power laser users in optics...

The TAGARNO T50 from TAGARNO is a 4K digital microscope that uses Sony ISS’s FCB-ER9500 camera. The collaboration allows for a digital microscope that can capture live images at 60 fps. The...

The FACSDiscover™ S8 Cell Sorter from Becton, Dickinson and Co. features CellView™ image technology, combining spectral flow cytometry with sort-capable imaging. The system is...

The Persee N1 from Orbbec is an all-in-one combination of a stereo-vision 3D camera and a purpose-built computer. Based on the NVIDIA Jetson platform, the Persee N1 delivers accurate and reliable...

Aspheric surfaces are powerful tools that combine the optical corrections of multiple lenses into a single element (Figure 1) and affect performance in ways that spherical optics cannot. For example,...

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...

Over 60 years have passed since the first demonstration of a laser in 1960. After the initial spark of interest, lasers were for a while categorized as “a solution waiting for a problem,”...

The wavelength range of commercially available LEDs with single-element output power of at least 5 mW is 275 to 950 nm. Each wavelength range is made from a specific semiconductor material family,...

An overview of diSPIM

Producing optics for medical devices has its own unique set of difficulties and challenges including cost, turnaround time, performance, and standards. This paper talks about those challenges and...

Tracking particles at the micro or nanoscale is inherently difficult due to the complexity of the systems studied, as well as the technical challenges: a blend of instrument design, photonics,...

Overview of Rapid Automated Modular Microscope.

Large-scale interdisciplinary research efforts have worked to comprehensively catalog cellular architectures in health and disease. To aid in this effort, researchers have developed a scalable...

The analysis of cells for research and diagnostic applications continues to create demand for improvements—in performance, but also in ease of use and total cost of ownership. Flow cytometry...

William Brown presents a history and future projection of lasers in dentistry, starting with the early wavelength research into laser applications for dental procedures. He also covers the current...

Wlodzimierz Strupinski, Ph.D., and Marcin Gebski, Ph.D., of VIGO Photonics offer perspective to industry specialists and experts who share a technological interest in the epitaxy, processing, and...

Supercontinuum refers to a broad spectrum of light that spans a wide range of wavelengths, typically from the visible to the near-infrared or even mid-infrared regions of the electromagnetic...

The technology that deals with the interaction of organic materials with light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. This includes the emission, detection, absorption,...

Free-space optics (FSO), also known as optical wireless communication or optical wireless networking, refers to the transmission of data using modulated beams of light through free space (air or a...

A photovoltaic cell, commonly known as a solar cell, is a semiconductor device that directly converts light energy into electrical energy through the photovoltaic effect. The photovoltaic effect is...

Reynard Corporation manufactures custom optics and thin-film coatings 0.2 µm to 50 µm (UV-IR) to demanding specs for defense & aerospace, commercial & industrial, and medical applications. Our...

Established in 1990, Applied Scientific Instrumentation is a reknown American company committed to the advancement of science. ASI products have been thoroughly tested and evaluated in numerous labs...

Optolong Optics Co. Ltd., brand owner of Optolong, is a manufacturer of fluorescence filters and astronomy filters. We also offer other interference filters including UV filters, visible filters, and...

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".

Established in 1985, OZ Optics is a leading worldwide supplier of fiber optic components, test equipment and sensors. OZ Optics manufactures its products in three locations, Ottawa (Canada),...

CASTECH is a recognized leading supplier of nonlinear optical crystals, laser crystals and precision optical components for laser, telecom, medical, analysis and detector markets. Products...

The Optical Engineering Experts® Optikos designs and manufactures metrology products for measuring and assuring optical image quality; and provides optical engineering design, development,...

Fresnel Technologies Inc. is an expert manufacturer of molded plastic optics, including Fresnel lenses and related optical components, as well as infrared transmitting materials and optics made from...