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To overcome the obstacles many fluorescence instrument designers and users face with spectral management, our experts created SearchLight. Can’t find the right fluorophore? Struggling with filter selection? Don't have time to set up custom models? We have a solution to these spectral challenges (and more). Click to read more.
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Now you can easily integrate this new blister technology into your existing reagent cartridge. This new chip is a standalone blister that can be easily attached to an existing cartridge—no need to redesign your microfluidic chip to integrate our blister technology. You can begin shelf life and material compatibility testing right away without having to wait for a custom cartridge design.
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A single-point fluorescence detector measures the total integrated signal independent of the spatial light distribution. The most important filter specifications to consider are the levels and ranges of the transmission and blocking regions. If only a single fluorophore is to be used, a long-wave-pass filter rather than a bandpass filter can be used to maximize signal. However, this usually increases noise (background signal) even more, so is not an optimal choice. Read more here.
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What components are part of a standard HPLC system? Solvent reservoir, a pump, injection valve, a column and more.
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At SPIE Photonics West 2025, our Director of RDE | Systems Imaging—David Steinchen—gave a live product demonstration of a turnkey fluorescent microscope (created in partnership with Dover Motion) to showcase one example of how our components can come together to enable your innovation. Watch our product demo here.
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When it comes to designing high-performance fluidic systems, material selection isn’t just important — it’s essential. The right material ensures reliability, durability, and precision, even in the most demanding environments. At IDEX Health & Science, we recognize how critical it is to understand the properties and performance of each material used in your application.
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Many of the most useful fluorescent probes have small separations between their peak excitation and emission wavelengths. These so-called small Stokes Shift probes have presented a historical challenge to optical filter manufacturers, because the critical edges of the passbands could not be placed too close together, at risk of overlap due to filter manufacturing variability. Read for IDEX Health & Science's solution!
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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. 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.
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Even the best objective lenses can face aberrations that compromise image quality. Understanding common aberrations is vital for creating high-performance optical systems that deliver the sharp, diffraction-limited diffraction-limited imaging needed today.
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When it comes to tackling the toughest HPLC and UHPLC separation challenges, the right column hardware can make all the difference. At IDEX Health & Science, we offer a comprehensive portfolio of column hardware systems and materials designed to support a wide range of applications—from small molecule analysis to complex biopharmaceutical workflows.
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