Custom Solutions - Prairie Laser Launches
A Prairie Laser Launch is an ideal light source for confocal microscopy, photoactivation, FRAP, TIRF and other laser-based microscopy applications.
The lasers in each Laser Launch are specific to the needs of the researcher. The custom optics in the launch directs the laser energy into a single mode optical fiber.
Acousto-Optic Tunable Filters (AOTF) are used to select the desired wavelength, act as a fast shutter and adjust intensity of throughput light.
A wide selection of lasers is available, with wavelengths from 405 nm to 647 nm.
Prairie launches work with wavelengths from UV to the red end of the spectrum, with the capability of combining multiple lasers and wavelengths into a single fiber.
Options include the used of two fibers on one launch with automated switching between fibers. One launch can deliver light to two completely separately imaging stations.
In addition, UV lasers that deliver up to 900 mW of UV light are available for photolysis applications.
Features
- Multiple laser options
- Choice of fiber diameters, single or multi-mode fibers
- Up to eight wavelengths in a single or dual fiber outputs
- Single or dual fiber capability, with automated switching
- AOTF for selection of wavelength and shutter allows for independent power and shuttering control of multiple laser wavelength, with any combination on on/off
- For use in confocal microscopy, UV uncaging, FRAP, TIRF, photoactivation
DATA SPOTLIGHT
C. elegans embryo expressing B-tubulin GFP
Image courtesy of Koen Verbrugghe and Chris Malone, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Time-lapse recordings of tubulin GFP C. elegans embryos during mitosis.
One image was acquired every second with a 100x Super Fluor lens using the SFC.
Image courtesy of Kevin Eliceiri and Koen Verbrugghe, LOCI, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
