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At SPIE Photonics West 2025, our Director of RDE | Systems Imaging—David Steinchen—gave a live product demonstration of a turnkey fluorescent microscope (created in partnership with Dover Motion) to showcase one example of how our components can come together to enable your innovation. Watch our product demo here.
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Our BrightLine filter sets have long been an industry ”work horse,” delivering dependable, exceptional performance for a wide range of ever evolving applications and customer needs. We're excited to announce a significant evolution in our BrightLine product offerings, designed to provide unparalleled value and performance: the BrightLine 2.0 and BrightLine Basic Optical Filter Sets.
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Even the best objective lenses can face aberrations that compromise image quality. Understanding common aberrations is vital for creating high-performance optical systems that deliver the sharp, diffraction-limited diffraction-limited imaging needed today.
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Ever wonder how the vibrant colors on your screen or the perfect shade of paint on your wall are precisely measured and maintained? The secret lies in a critical, yet often unseen, component: tristimulus optical filters. Read our "The Science of Sight: Intro to Tristimulus Filters" to learn more!
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The current generation of one OEM customer’s instrument could not satisfy the next-generation instrument requirements due to insufficient resolution and color correction over the full FOV. Read more for our solution!
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Laser damage to optical filters is strongly dependent on many factors, and thus it is difficult to guarantee the performance of a filter in all possible circumstances. LDT is typically specified in units of Joules/cm2. Read this blog to explore factors important to determining LDT.
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Spectral measurements of filters using standard spectrometers suffer from a few limitations, especially when attempting to measure very steep edges and sharp transitions. Read this blog to learn more!
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At IDEX Health & Science, we create optical solutions that drive scientific and medical advancements. Semrock filters and Melles Griot systems are designed for precision, but their impact goes far beyond technical specifications. A recent experience brought this reality home.
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Watch the webinar replay! Developing a high-performance fluorescence microscope is a challenging task in which all subsystems must work in harmony. In this webinar, we will introduce key system architecture decision points and discuss their pros and cons. By properly considering the impact of each decision on the full optical system, you will design a more cohesive microscope that achieves the desired performance.
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Traditional next generation DNA testing is missing a piece of the puzzle, key proteins. Discover how proteomics can evolve disease treatment and detection.
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