Complete Optical Train speeds development of fouorescence scanners.May 5, 2011 -
CORE illumination and imaging system(TM) offers equipment manufacturers optical block, based on solid-state excitation subsystems, that includes all illumination and imaging optics needed in fluorescence scanner. Functionality enables efficient light delivery within customizable unit that functions as heart of fluorescence reader. Product illuminates fluorescent samples and images the resulting emissions, streamlining engineering and development time for new instruments.
(Archive News Story - Products mentioned in this Archive News Story may or may not be available from the manufacturer.)
Original Press release
Lumencor, Inc.
15250 NW Greenbrier Parkway
Beaverton, OR, 97006
USA
Lumencor Expands Offerings to Biotech OEMs and End Users: a Complete Optical Train for Quantitative Fluorescence Analysis
CORE illumination and imaging system(TM): high performance excitation in a complete optical unit
Beaverton, Oregon-Lumencor, Inc., a biotechnology company developing lighting solutions for the life sciences, has launched its most comprehensive bioanalysis lighting product to date, the CORE illumination and imaging system(TM). This product offers equipment manufacturers a streamlined optical block based on Lumencor's existing powerful, solid-state excitation subsystems. The CORE includes an excitation subsystem as well as all the illumination and imaging optics needed in a fluorescence scanner. It enables the most efficient light delivery within a customizable unit that functions as the heart of a state-of-the-art fluorescence reader. Steven Jaffe, Ph.D, Lumencor CEO, explains, "The CORE is part of a natural progression in Lumencor's product development. The product was conceived while working in collaboration with several of our existing OEM customers who were looking to Lumencor to fulfill a specific need, confident that our optical design expertise and proprietary solid state light engine technology would make Lumencor the ideal provider of this type of comprehensive solution."
The CORE illuminates fluorescent samples and images the resulting emissions. This functionality is accomplished on a compact, 3-D support through the integration of:
multiple solid-state excitation sources
spectral bandpass filters
microscope objective z-control
field diaphragm
collimating lens
poly-band dichroic
multi-band emission filter
objective and tube lens
camera mount
control electronics
These features streamline engineering and reduce development time and cost for new instruments. Lumencor's OEM partners build the CORE into their quantitative bioanalysis tools and instruments, taking advantage of all the benefits of Lumencor light engine technology. Features like fast (microseconds) switching, precise camera and excitation light synchronization, dosimetry and highly reproducible instrument calibration are only possible with Lumencor's proprietary lighting technology.
Lumencor, Inc.
Lumencor is a Beaverton, Oregon-based device manufacturer building novel light engines for the life sciences industry. Lumencor light engines provide high quality solutions for lighting subsystems employed by life science instrument manufacturers, bioanalytical researchers and scientists with high power, spectrally pure and stable light sources. The units are designed to simply replace today's light subsystems as well as for tomorrow's small, portable analyzers. Find more information about Lumencor at www.lumencor.com.
®The Lumencor name, logo and devices are trademarks of Lumencor, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon. ® light engines uniquely designed for the needs of bioanalysis CORE illumination and imaging system(TM)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 
