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    Edwards nEXT Pump
    Clean, quiet and hydrocarbon-freeEDWARDS VACUUM has developed a new series of magnetically levitated turbomolecular pumps that can withstand the demands of both challenging industrial...
    Jan. 23, 2025
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    The Edmund Optics Educational Award is an initiative to support outstanding undergraduate and graduate optics programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at non-profit colleges and universities.
    The optics and imaging components maker has announced the recipients of its 2020 Educational Award and Norman Edmund Award.
    Feb. 5, 2021
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    The Leica and Imperial Imaging Hub will provide deeper insights into high-quality images and acquired data through improved optical imaging workflows.
    Feb. 4, 2021
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    Organized in partnership with the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), the first SPIE Quantum West will be held online during the SPIE Photonics West Digital Forum...
    Feb. 3, 2021
    Olympus
    The LEXT OLS5100 3D laser scanning microscope is designed for failure analysis and material engineering research with 0.12 µm lateral resolution.
    Jan. 17, 2021
    Andor Technology
    The Marana-X direct x-ray detection back-illuminated sCMOS camera is designed for ultrafast soft x-ray/EUV tomography applications.
    Jan. 8, 2021

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    Even in 2020 quantum technology remained a key issue for German politics. In December, chancelor Dr. Angela Merkel was presented a photon source developed at Fraunhofer IOF for the secure communication.
    Here are three trends in lasers and photonics which we will see more often in the years to come.
    Dec. 29, 2020
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    Fixed-wavelength ultrafast lasers (left) and power supplies (right) are more compact than their tunable Ti:sapphire alternatives (fixed-wavelength laser and power supply are orange; tunable are blue-green). However, for two-photon microscopy, each laser technology has its advantages and disadvantages that the researcher must carefully consider.
    Many biologists are unfamiliar with ultrafast laser technology, but still need to decide between tunable or fixed-wavelength lasers for their two-photon microscopy applications...
    Nov. 17, 2020
    Kinetic River Potomac Flow Cytometer
    The customized flow cytometer was installed at the National Research Council in Naples, Italy for biomedical research and water monitoring.
    Nov. 9, 2020
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    By creating new ways to control the binding and release of the two molecules, many new lab techniques can now be developed to enable new health discoveries and improved diagnostic...
    Oct. 28, 2020
    FIGURE 1. In SCAPE, a light sheet is formed at an oblique angle by off-axis illumination of the primary microscope objective with a line profile beam (a); SCAPE builds a volumetric image by scanning the light sheet while capturing a series of images of the illuminated plane (b).
    An innovative laser fluorescence technique, swept confocally aligned planar excitation (SCAPE) microscopy, overcomes the limitations of earlier methods and offers broad life sciences...
    Oct. 13, 2020

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    FIGURE 1. This schematic represents a traditional flow cytometer design, including typical fluidic system and illumination laser, along with FSC, SSC, and three-channel fluorescence detection. Many modern flow cytometers use multiple illumination lasers and more than three fluorescence detection channels.
    By increasing spatial resolution through reduction of optical noise, quasi-confocal geometry allows analysis of extracellular vesicles and other submicron particles.
    Sept. 15, 2020
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    FIGURE 1. Two-photon excited fluorescence images of a 300-µm-thick mouse brain slice stained with Alexa 647, with excitations at 780 nm (a) and 1300 nm (b). Measurements were taken in cooperation with the Max-Planck-Institute of Experimental Medicine (Göttingen, Germany).
    Two-photon microscopy, 3D printing, and other applications all benefit from the newest generation of ultrafast fiber lasers.
    Sept. 15, 2020
    Zeiss
    The Lightsheet 7 fluorescence microscope allows fast and gentle imaging of whole living model organisms, tissues, and developing cells.
    Aug. 28, 2020
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    Mass cytometry technology from Fluidigm is being used in a prospective observational cohort surveillance study of up to 2000 adult participants hospitalized with COVID-19.
    Aug. 26, 2020
    The Organoid Counting Software Analyzes A Single Image In Less Than Three Seconds
    The automated organoid counter application detects organoids using bright-field image analysis.
    July 29, 2020
    Spectral angle mapping (SAM) allowed differentiation of cells imaged using hyperspectral dark-field microscopy. Cells below the threshold spectral angle are marked as positive using a green outline; cells above the threshold are marked as negative with a red outline. Isolate cell detection shows positive E. coli 157:H7 (a) and Listeria monocytogenes (b). A slide with both pathogens depict E. coli (c) at positive (48) and negative (65), and Listeria monocytogenes (d) at positive (66) and negative (47).
    Aided by deep learning, hyperspectral imaging facilitates high-speed single-cell pathogen detection with no critical volume and little prep.
    July 14, 2020
    The proof-of-principle hardware shown here has been converted into a compact, noninvasive device to precisely measure eye movements and correlate them with the severity of neurological disease.
    Video images from a reflected-light laser scan of the human retina characterize small eye movements to monitor the severity of multiple sclerosis.
    July 14, 2020
    Ingaas
    The CinCam InGaAs laser beam profiling system can characterize beams within ISO standards in the 900 to 1800 nm range.
    July 4, 2020