SOLA Light Engine® Configuration in Nikon Elements and Micro-Manager
SOLA Light Engine® Configuration in Nikon Elements and Micro-Manager Our new SOLA, SOLA FISH, SOLA U-nIR and SOLA V-nIR Light Engines are designed to provide backward USB control compatibility with their SOLA SE predecessors. However, some image acquisition programs...
Application SpotLIGHT – April 2021: Fabrication of Biomimetic Structures by Patterned Ultraviolet Photopolymerization Using the SOLA Light Engine®
Fabrication of Biomimetic Structures by Patterned Ultraviolet Photopolymerization Using the SOLA Light Engine® Solid state light sources are ideal for controlled initiation of photopolymerization reactions1, which are the basis of widely used techniques for...
Featured Article: Spectral, Spatial, and Temporal Output Characteristics of Light Sources for Optogenetic Stimulation
Spectral, Spatial, and Temporal Output Characteristics of Light Sources for Optogenetic Stimulation Iain Johnson of Lumencor explains Optogenetic techniques developed over the past 15 years, that have served neuroscientists well. They provide spectrally and spatially...
Light BYTES – March 2021: MAGMA Light Engine®: Solid State Illumination for Solar Test Platforms
MAGMA Light Engine®: Solid State Illumination for Solar Test Platforms Artificial light sources are essential for performance validation in photovoltaic device manufacturing and for characterization of properties such as photoconductivity and quantum efficiency in the...
Light BYTES – February 2021: Nature Method 2020 Method for the Year Features Lumencor’s CELESTA
Method of the Year: MERFISH Imaging using the CELESTA Light Engine® Nature Methods journal recently selected spatially resolved transcriptomics as Method of the Year for 2020. Spatially resolved transcriptomics is a collective term for a set of techniques directed...
Application SpotLIGHT – January 2021: Time-lapse Imaging with SOLA Light Engine®
The Relevance of Time-lapse Imaging of GFP Expression Using the SOLA Light Engine® to COVID-19 vaccine Efficacy The delivery of mRNA through lipid-based transfection has been a longstanding challenge for the development of RNA therapeutics. Moreover, it has acquired a...
Light BYTES – December 2020: Introducing the newly updated family of SOLA light engines®
Updated SOLA light engines for 2021 and Beyond You asked and we delivered! Lumencor is proud to introduce the newly updated family of SOLA light engines that will continue to set the standards for performance and reliability in white light illumination. This product...
Light BYTES – November 2020: Intensity Control Linearity in Lumencor’s New Generation of Light Engines
Lumencor's new Generation of Light Engines: Intensity Control linearity AURA, RETRA, SPECTRA, CELESTA and ZIVA light engines, as well as the newly refreshed SOLA light engine for 2021, incorporate on-board microprocessors, providing impressive advances in control and...
Parallel Light Engine Performance monitoring Using the Onboard Control GUI
Parallel Light Engine Performance monitoring Using the Onboard Control GUI AURA, CELESTA, RETRA, SPECTRA, and ZIVA Light Engines incorporate a control GUI accessed through a web browser via an ethernet connection. Image acquisition applications used to control the...
October 2020 Application spotLIGHT: Single-cell Characterization of Immunization Responses with SOLA light engine
Single-cell Characterization of Immunization Responses The current Covid-19 pandemic has sparked an urgent need for improvements in the characterization of the immune response to vaccinations. Although simple and robust, conventional antibody titer measurements...
