Materials Products & Reviews

SMS25: Articulating Arm Stand for StereomicroscopesPerfect for use in a cramped work area, this stand series provides easy positioning of medium duty stereomicroscopes through all three dimensions x-y-z and can “fold” up against the wall when not in use. An additional space-saving advantage for this system is that the support arm requires no back clearance, unlike boom stand systems. The z-dimension movement is assisted with a…

SMS20: Heavy Duty Ball Bearing Boom Stand for Stereomicroscopes This boom stand series is designed for support of large research grade microscopes while providing them with fluid motion in a horizontal plane. The horizontal arm is mounted on linear ball bearing units in the solid aluminum cross slider. Locking the arm in position is quickly accomplished with secure Soft-Grip knobs. The stereo microscope is mounted via the SPOT…

The PowerWaveX 340 is an automated microplate spectrophotometer capable of reading all 96-well microplates in a continuous wavelength range between 340 and 999 nm. It reads up to 8 optional Bio-CellsTM (patented) to obtain 1 nm measurements. Automated pathlength correction is available with KCjunior software, which is included with the PowerWaveX 340.Features 96-well microplate reading Continuous wavelength selection from 340…

Mid-Polar UI column; a great choice for drugs of abuse testing and pesticides analysis. Agilent J&W continues their ultra inert innovations with the DB-35ms Ultra Inert GC column; a mid-polar column joining the existing apolar columns in the family, DB/HP-1ms and DB/HP-5ms.  With this new column, ultra inert performance is available for applications where different selectivity is needed for enhanced separations, including pest…

Ideal for quality control in analytical or industrial laboratories where a high specification instrument and a wide choice of accessories are required Features Tungsten Deuterium source with lamp saver mode Basic routines (Absorbance, %Transmission, Concentration & Ratio) plus scanning, kinetics and standard curve capabilities Store methods Automatic system calibration Customize both the start-up menu and the acc…

The FLS980-stm is the world’s most sensitive modular, computer controlled spectrometer for acquiring steady state luminescence spectra, time resolved fluorescence spectra and the associated fluorescence decays in the ultraviolet - visible - near infra red spectral range with single photon counting sensitivity. Regarded as a complete laboratory in one instrument, the FLS980-stm offers ultimate sensitivity with high spectral res…

The LifeSpec II is a compact, fully integrated, high performance fluorescence lifetime spectrometer designed for use with high-repetition rate pulsed femtosecond, picosecond and supercontinuum lasers. The system is a fully automated solution combining hardware and software in a single package for fundamental research and routine laboratory applications. Its zero temporal dispersion optics set the standards for technical perfor…

The X-Cite® 120Q system uses a 120-watt lamp to deliver rich spectral excitation with a uniformly illuminated field of view. The proprietary Intelli-Lamp® provides more than 2000 hours of life. The lamp is pre-aligned so changing it is a simple, one-step process. The optional adjustable iris allows the user to set the level of illumination. Ideally suited to routine fluorescence assays and use in multi-user facilities. The X…

The X-Cite® exacte employs a DC-powered mercury lamp coupled with patented Closed-Loop Feedback technology to provide ultra-stable illumination, for imaging protocols lasting from milliseconds to days. With the X-Cite® Optical Power Measurement System, light output can also be calibrated in absolute power units (watts), ensuring truly repeatable experiments. Features of the X-Cite® exacte: Lamp: 200W, Pre-aligned, Intelli-L…

Triple EmissionThe TripleSplit 3-way image splitter from Cairn Research is a simple device for dividing an image into either one, two or three separate, spatially equivalent components which can be displayed side by side on a single camera chip. Download data sheet Splitting is usually performed on the basis of wavelength or polarisation, allowing applications where there is a requirement for simultaneous, or high speed, acqui…

Our New LED Based Flash Photolysis SystemThe Cairn Optoflash is the latest member of the Cairn OptoLED family. It uses our established LED head and microscope coupling designs, but is optimised for short-term intense illumination. This makes it particularly suitable for the photoactivation of “caged” neurotransmitter or other compounds, and for the important emerging application of channel rhodopsin activation. The maximum cur…

Ultra Stable and Instantaneous Wavelength Switching Recent developments in Light Emitting Diode [LED] technology have yielded devices that are both brighter and capable of operating at more different wavelengths than their predecessors. The high stability and absence of harmful ultraviolet and infrared radiation makes them an ideal choice for fluorescence and transmitted light microscopy. In common with our OptoLED, the Lite v…

Our flexible LaserBank system will launch up to five laser lines into up to five different single-mode fibres. This system can be configured with new lasers or, in most cases, with existing solid state lasers. Please contact us for details of your requirements. The flexible architecture allows lasers to be mounted for TIRF, FRAP, photolysis, confocal or widefield imaging. It provides analogue intensity control and digital swit…

Adjustable field mask for region selection For many years we have offered a movable variable rectangular field stop. This was initially designed to mask a region of interest within the field of view of a microscope in order to make localised intensity measurements with a photomultiplier. Subsequent evolutions of the device have formed an integral part of our OptoSplit image splitters to mask a region to be projected to both ha…

LumiScope for the detection of bioluminescence from aequorin and other luminescence probes.

The TIRF technique is a special kind of wide-field fluorescence technique for measuring cellsor SMC in an evanescent field without haze. By total reflection of the exciting light (typicallylaser) at the coverslip / medium interface, the fluorescence excitation is limited to a very thin space in the vicinity of the glass surface. The resulting fluorescence images exhibit extremely high contrast and resolution with the possibili…

VisiView® is a high performance imaging software from Visitron Systems GmbH for BioImaging applications.It is specially designed to meet the needs for high-speed image acquisition and processing with ease of use. Our software controls complex automated microscopes and microscope equipment in combination with multidimensional acquisition and analysis. The multitasking operation supports simultaneous image acquisition and analys…

Key Facts: • Plug & Play laser light source for industry and science • up to 6 wavelengths beam-combined and fiber coupled in one compact housing • >20 different wavelengths between 375nm and 830nm available • Up to two Single-Mode, polarisation maintaining fiber outputs • High-Speed digital and/or analogue modulation • Electronic shutter function for fast wavelength switching • Flexible, customized wavelength combinations • U…

The new pco.edge camera is a breakthrough in scientific imaging cameras, due to its distinctive ability to simultaneously deliver extremely low noise, fast frame rates, wide dynamic range, high quantum efficiency, high resolution and a large field of view-all in one image. In the past emCCD image sensors featuring on-chip amplification were developed to detect the lowest level of light. However, amplification, while reducing r…

The PhoxX® Diode Laser Series is ideal for microscopic imaging applications due to its small and compact design, 18 different wavelengths between 375nm and 830nm, single-mode optical output powers up to 140mW, high-stability CW operation, high-speed digital and/or analogue modulation, electronic shutter function (laser inhibit) with >300kHz full ON/OFF capability, Automatic Aging Compensation (AAC) function, 0.7mm beam diamete…

The LuxX® Diode Laser Series is ideal for microscopic imaging applications due to its small and compact design, 18 different wavelengths between 375nm and 830nm, single-mode optical output powers up to 140mW, high stability CW operation (ACC and APC mode), fast analogue modulation, electronic shutter function (laser inhibit) with >150kHz full ON/OFF capability, Automatic Aging Compensation (AAC) function, USB2.0 and RS-232 int…

The LightHUB(R) Compact Laser Combiner can be equipped with up to four DPSS or diode lasers of different wavelengths in a compact and rugged design. Wavelengths between 375nm and 830nm and optical output powers up to 150mW per laser line are possible. The Compact Laser Combiners can be equipped with polarisation maintaining fibre coupling units to supply the light to applications in biotechnology like confocal microscopy and f…

AA's range of AOTF (acousto-optic tunable filters) are used extensively in confocal microscopy applications. Having pioneered the development of the AOTF in response to the needs of early developers Amos and White, AA offered the first commercially available devices for OEM applications. Photon Lines are still supplying Confocal manufacturers with such devices, and their ruggedness and reliability result in virtually zero retu…

AA's range of AOTF (acousto-optic tunable filters) are used extensively in confocal microscopy applications. Having pioneered the development of the AOTF in response to the needs of early developers Amos and White, AA offered the first commercially available devices for OEM applications. Photon Lines are still supplying Confocal manufacturers with such devices, and their ruggedness and reliability result in virtually zero retu…

To eliminate the heat loss from the specimen, Bioptechs developed a patented Objective Heater System®, which includes a heater/sensor and an electronic controller specifically designed for this purpose. The heater/sensor is comprised of an adjustable thin-film heating band which surrounds 3/4 of the diameter of the upper region of the central retracting tube of the objective. A temperature probe positioned in the gap formed be…