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    • Elizabeth Illy

    Director of Marketing, Cobolt (HÜBNER Photonics)

    Elizabeth Illy is director of marketing at Cobolt, a part of HÜBNER Photonics (Solna, Sweden).

    FIGURE 1. Detector sensitivity vs. wavelength for silicon (Si) and InGaAs photodiodes.
    Lasers & Sources

    How to Choose a Laser: How to choose a laser for Raman spectroscopy

    Elizabeth Illy
    Aug. 1, 2018
    Here, in detail, are the lasers that can be used for Raman spectroscopy and why.
    An example of an image taken in a single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) setup from the Department of Biotechnology & Biophysics at Julius-Maximilian-University of Würzburg; the three-color image is a BPAE cell with mitotracker (red), actin (cyan), and nucleus (DAPI; blue) staining (recording time: 4 s per channel, with 2048 × 2048 pixel image detail).
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    Fluorescence Microscopy/Illumination: Highly stable multi-line lasers for next-generation imaging

    Elizabeth Illy
    Feb. 14, 2018
    Advances in laser manufacturing are enabling extremely compact multi-line illumination devices that ease instrumentation design and serve researchers' needs for fuss-free reliability...
    FIGURE 1. The 355-nm Cobolt Zouk laser in a total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy setup. Zouk is a single-mode DPSS laser offering 10 mW CW in a 5 × 2.8 × 1.8-in. hermetically sealed package, with very low-intensity noise, and in a high-quality TEM00-mode and low-divergent beam.
    Fluorescence

    CELL BIOLOGY/BIOMEDICAL IMAGING: Ultraviolet becomes accessible

    Elizabeth Illy
    May 1, 2010
    UV lasers are attractive for excitation of fluorophores growing in popularity for DNA analysis and calcium imaging applications.