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    Photoacoustic Microscopy
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    FIGURE 1. A Chromacity engineer aligns an ultrafast fiber laser with second-harmonic generation.
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    Depiction of the adaptive sampling scheme, in which a laser beam patterned by a digital micromirror device selectively illuminates neurons and their activity in brain tissue.
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    Avantier Stress-Free Objective Lenses
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    Stress-Free Objective Lenses for High Precision Imaging

    Avantier Inc
    Oct. 28, 2024
    In the continuous evolution of optical technology, stress-free objective lenses have emerged as a leading solution, particularly for advanced polarized light microscopy. These...
    (Sample courtesy of Aoi Gohma and Atsushi Miyawaki, RIKEN CBS-EVIDENT Open Collaboration Center)
    Bio&Life Sciences

    Near-infrared light enables optical observation in microscopy

    Akira Saito
    Sept. 11, 2024
    Near-infrared (NIR) imaging can help mitigate the challenges of using visible light as an excitation source for biological research.
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    Science & Research

    Fluorescence lifetime imaging platform adds confocal high-speed laser scanning

    HORIBA Scientific
    Sept. 8, 2024
    InverTau is a fully software-controlled platform that mounts to the side port of an inverted fluorescence microscope to add fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) capability.
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    Bio&Life Sciences

    Bioimaging: Is it possible to improve the performance of microscopes?

    Antonio Castelo
    Aug. 20, 2024
    Advances in microscope technology can improve the efficiency, accuracy, and speed of the biological specimen imaging process.
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    Lasers & Sources

    Ultrafast fiber laser offers 1000–1100 nm spectral bandwidth

    HÜBNER Photonics - a div of HÜBNER GmbH & Co KG
    Aug. 1, 2024
    The VALO Tidal ultrafast fiber laser delivers pulse durations of 40 fs (typical) with 2 W output power.

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    Detectors & Imaging

    FLIM camera system provides 1008 × 1008 pixel resolution

    Excelitas PCO GmbH
    July 4, 2024
    The pco.flim X frequency domain fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) camera system can measure fluorescence lifetimes from 1 ns to 100 µs.
    (Courtesy of Albrecht Stroh, University Medical Center Mainz and Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research)
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    Three-photon microscopy comes of age

    Lukas Kontenis
    May 3, 2024
    How does three-photon microscopy stack up against two-photon microscopy?
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    Optics

    ZEISS and Imperial College London run optics summer program for teens

    Sally Cole Johnson
    March 11, 2024
    Teens—14 and 15 years old—get opportunity to immerse themselves in optics for a week during the summer.
    Lasers & Sources

    Red laser module enables single-molecule observation

    Coherent Corp
    March 3, 2024
    The OBIS 640 XT diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) laser module offers up to 1000 mW output at 640 nm.
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    Digital microscope camera offers AI-based scene detection

    Evident
    Jan. 31, 2024
    The DP75 digital microscope camera captures images from brightfield to wide-wavelength fluorescence and near-infrared using a single camera.