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Enhanced Fluorescence Imaging: Semrock's New BrightLine 2.0 and BrightLine Basic Filter Sets
Apr 29, 2025
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IDEX Health & Science
For over two decades, Semrock optical filters from IDEX Health & Science have stood at the forefront of optical filter technology, empowering OEMs, scientists, and engineers with high-quality, reliable solutions. From our beginnings utilizing existing filter designs, our team has consistently pushed the boundaries of what's possible in fluorescence microscopy and analytical instrumentation. 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. Today, 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.
Both new BrightLine filter sets represent the culmination of 20+ years of technological advancement for Semrock optical filters, and they are a prime example of enhancing our core products to meet current industry requirements. The market has changed, and as limits are pushed for optical systems, we’re creating filters designed to suit those evolving needs.
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BrightLine Launch Availability
| Available Now | Coming Soon | ||
| Brightline® 2.0 | Brightline Basic™ | Brightline® 2.0 | Brightline Basic™ |
| Cy5 | Cy5 | BFP | BFP |
| LED TRITC | LED TRITC | TRITC | TRITC |
| TxRED | TxRED | ||
| FITC | FITC | ||
| GFP | GFP | ||
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Introducing BrightLine 2.0: Enhanced Performance, Exceptional Value
We've meticulously redesigned and introduced new BrightLine catalog filters, aligning individual filter spectral specifications and production processes with standardized family set requirements. This strategic redesign allows us to offer these high-quality, reliable sets at an unprecedented $895 price point without compromising quality or performance.
Key Benefits of BrightLine 2.0:
- Enhanced Set Performance: By optimizing component spectral specifications to specific fluorophore excitation and emission requirements, BrightLine 2.0 sets deliver superior signal-to-noise ratios and brighter images. This is crucial for applications demanding precise and reliable fluorescence imaging, including confocal microscopy.
- Standardized Specifications: Clear and consistent specifications across the BrightLine 2.0 family simplify product discovery and selection, ensuring you get the right filters for your specific application.
- Cost-Effective Excellence: The $895 price point makes high quality, reliable optical filters accessible to a wider range of customers, enabling cutting-edge research and diagnostics.
Maximizing Contrast: We deliver contrast value for our filter sets by providing OD 8 – OD 10 blocking in complimentary bands. Unique to Semrock optical filters and backed by our proprietary KolaDeep™ Spectral Measurement System, this feature consistently creates a world of difference for the most popular fluorophores.
Introducing BrightLine Basic: Uncompromising Quality at an Unbeatable Price
For cost-conscious customers, the redesigned BrightLine Basic Optical Filter Sets offer exceptional value. This new product family features individual filters designed to standardized requirements with relaxed spectral and cosmetic specifications compared to the BrightLine catalog filters. These filters are not simply "lesser" versions of our premium offerings. Instead, they are specifically engineered to meet the needs of applications where stringent specifications are less critical. By relaxing certain requirements, we've been able to offer BrightLine Basic sets at an incredibly competitive $545 price point.
Key Benefits of BrightLine Basic:
- Exceptional Value: The $545 price point makes BrightLine Basic sets an ideal choice for cost-sensitive applications without sacrificing essential performance.
- Reliable Performance: While specifications are relaxed compared to BrightLine 2.0, BrightLine Basic filters still deliver reliable performance for a wide range of fluorescence imaging needs.
- Clear Differentiation: Standardized specifications clearly distinguish BrightLine Basic from BrightLine 2.0, allowing simplified selection of the right filters based upon budgetary and application needs.
Addressing Your Pain Points
We understand that our customers face various challenges when selecting optical filters. New and novel instrument designs require precise specifications to meet overall system requirements, while basic research requires affordability and fluorophore compatibility, especially in fluorescence imaging and fluorescence microscopy.
Our new BrightLine 2.0 and BrightLine Basic sets address your needs by:
- Providing clear and consistent specifications.
- Offering competitive pricing.
- Simplifying product discovery.
- Ensuring compatibility with popular fluorophores, microscope configurations, and light sources.
The Semrock Advantage
Semrock's commitment to innovation is evident in our patented design and manufacturing technology. Our patented IBS and magnetron coating fleet enables us to produce filters with exceptional performance and durability, ensuring exceptional reliability even under high optical intensities and adverse environmental conditions. This means we are uniquely positioned to meet the volume, price, and performance needs of our customers, providing customizable solutions for even the most demanding applications.
With the introduction of BrightLine 2.0 and BrightLine Basic Optical Filter Sets, Semrock is setting a new standard for value and performance in fluorescence imaging, fluorescence microscopy, widefield microscopy, and confocal microscopy. We are confident that these new offerings will empower our customers to achieve their research and development goals. Explore the new BrightLine 2.0 and BrightLine Basic sets and experience the Semrock difference.