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BioOptics World
June 04, 2008
Green fiber laser endorsed by the National Institute of Health (USA)
Link to article: click here BioOptics BreakthRoughs Green fiber laser passes NIH tests Following testing in flow-cytometry applications, the National Cancer Institute gave a green light to Zecotek Photonics’ (Vancouver, B.C.) green fiber laser GFL-550, saying it meets all performance specifications by emitting a 550 nm wavelength. “Until now a 550 nm solution did not exist,” said Dr. William Telford, Head of the Flow Cytometry Core Laboratory at the National Cancer Institute/NIH, who presented the GFL-550’s performance in a paper by at the 24th International Congress of the International Society for Analytical Cytometry (Budapest, Hungary; May 2008). Because it excites certain fluorescent probes more efficiently, the new laser promises improved accuracy and broader use of flow cytometry in immunology, hematology, transplants, and biomedical research. Zecotek sees the offering as the replacement of choice for 532 nm lasers in confocal microscopy as well as cytometry. |
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