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Development of a Capillary Waveguide Biosensor Analytical Module

Development of a Capillary Waveguide Biosensor Analytical Module for Use with the MBARI Environmental Sample Processor
HS Dhadwal, JA Radway, J Aller, P Kemp… – … Technologies for Ocean …, 2012 – Springer
… It was replaced by a 30 mW, temperature-stabilized, solid-state 532 nm laser (World Star Tech
TECGL-05-TTL), with power stability better than 2 %. For single photon counting systems, there
are two possible solutions, one based on a photomultiplier (PMT) and the other on an …

https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007/978-1-61779-915-0_2#page-1

Microfluidic array cytometer based on refractive optical tweezers for parallel trapping, imaging and sorting of individual cells

M Werner, F Merenda, J Piguet, RP Salathé, H Vogel – Lab on a Chip, 2011 – pubs.rsc.org
… A laser shutter (LS1) allowed to switch on/off the steerable optical trap, independent
from the optical trap array. A Diode pumped laser emitting at 532 nm (TECGL-30-532 World Star Tech)
was utilized for fluorescence excitation. ..

http://pubs.rsc.org/is/content/articlelanding/2011/lc/c1lc20181f#!divAbstract

An atomic force microscope tip as a light source

V Lulevich, C Honig, WA Ducker – Review of scientific instruments, 2005 – aip.scitation.org
… A thermoelectrically cooled diode laser ( 532 nm , 10 mW , TECGL-10, World Star
Tech., Canada) or an Ar-ion water-cooled laser ( 488 nm line of 1 W , Innova
Enterprise 2, model 610, CA, USA) was used as the light source. …
Abstract:
We present a simple method for causing the end of a silicon nitride atomic force microscope (AFM) tip to emit light, and we use this emitted light to perform scanning near-field optical microscopy. Illumination of a silicon nitride AFM tip by blue (488nm)(488nm) or green (532nm)(532nm) laser light causes the sharp part of the tip to emit orange light. Orange light is emitted when the tip is immersed in either air or water; and while under illumination, emission continues for a period of many hours without photobleaching. By careful alignment of the incident beam, we can arrange the scattered light to decay as a function of the tip-substrate separation with a decay length of 100–200nm. The exponential decay of the intensity means that the emitted light is dominated by contributions from parts of the tip that are near the sample, and therefore the emitted orange light can be used to capture high-resolution near-field optical images in air or water.

http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.2149149

Next generation Advanced Laser Fluorometry (ALF) for characterization of natural aquatic environments: new instruments

Next generation Advanced Laser Fluorometry (ALF) for characterization of natural aquatic environments: new instruments
Abstract
The new optical design allows single- or multi-wavelength excitation of laser-stimulated emission (LSE), provides optimized LSE optical collection for spectral and temporal analyses, and incorporates swappable modules for flow-through and small-volume sample measurements. The basic instrument configuration uses 510 nm laser excitation for assessments of chlorophyll-a, phycobiliprotein pigments, variable fluorescence (Fv/Fm) and chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) in CDOM-rich waters. The three-laser instrument configuration (375, 405, and 510 nm excitation laser provided by World Star Tech ) provides additional Fv/Fm measurements with 405 nm excitation, CDOM assessments in a broad concentration range, and potential for spectral discrimination between oil and CDOM fluorescence. The new measurement protocols, analytical algorithms and examples of laboratory and field measurements are discussed.
https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-21-12-14181

Refractive index of thin, aqueous films between hydrophobic surfaces studied using evanescent wave atomic force microscopy

CT McKee, WA Ducker – Langmuir, 2005 – ACS Publications
… The evanescent wave was generated using a 532-nm diode laser (TECGL-10, World Star Tech,
Toronto, Canada). The scattered evanescent light was collected with a Nikon LU Plan 50×/0.55
objective and transferred to a photomultiplier tube (H5784-20 Hamamatsu). figure …
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=yhD3140AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra