Press Releases

The IDEX Health & Science team is excited to announce a significant product advancement designed to provide unparalleled value and performance: the BrightLine 2.0 and BrightLine Basic optical filter sets. Both new BrightLine filter sets represent the culmination of 20+ years of technological advancement for Semrock optical filters, and they are a prime example of enhancing core Semrock products to meet current industry requirements. Learn more.
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IDEX Health & Science has launched the new Semrock line of Nanopede Optical Filters specifically designed for flow cytometry applications. These optical filters cover the visible spectrum in 20 nm Full-Width, Half-Max (FWHM) steps. Learn more.
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In 2022 alone, the Life Science Optics (LSO) team—working in conjunction with the IDEX Foundation—donated $168,900 to local organizations and hundreds of volunteer hours.
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IDEX Health & Science has extended its line of Semrock™ brand optical filters with the launch of the new Avant™ filter set family. This new filter set has been designed to provide significant improvement in fluorescence performance for corresponding short Stokes Shift fluorophores.
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IDEX Health & Science’s Life Science Optics Team recently made a $15,000 Donation through the IDEX Foundation to the Special Olympics of New York.
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IDEX Health & Science’s Life Science Optics Team—comprised of units in Rochester, NY Lima, NY and Carlsbad, CA—donated $104,998 in 2021 to local organizations.
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The Verona™ optical filters product line was designed from the ground up specifically for Raman instruments. Understanding that crucial spectroscopic data lies within the fingerprint region close to the excitation laser line, IDEX Health & Science designed the VLP01-785 with a transition width < 29 cm−1 at 785 nm.
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Rohnert Park, California, September 27, 2021— IDEX Health & Science (IH&S), the global leader in optofluidic components and subsystems, announced today that its Life Science Optics business unit has received the Laser Focus World Innovators Award for their Kola Deep™ Spectral Measurement System. This award recognizes excellent innovation, the benefits of which are clear and represents substantial improvement over previous methods employed, approaches taken, or products/systems used, was determined by an esteemed and experienced panel of judges from the optics and photonics community.
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Rochester, New York, October 12, 2020 — IDEX Health & Science (IH&S), industry leader in optofluidic components and subsystems, announces the market expansion of its patented Semrock line of VersaChrome® tunable bandpass and tunable edge optical filters beyond fluorescence microscopy into tunable Raman spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging applications.
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Rochester, New York, April 22 2020— IDEX Health & Science (IH&S) announced it has reached a major milestone, shipping its 5 millionth Semrock optical filter. IH&S design and process control of Semrock optical filters provides the life science market with an important and robust component that has become widely accepted as the industry standard. More recently, Semrock optical filters have played a role in detecting (through PCR instruments) and monitoring (through sequencing instruments) the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 resulting in a significant increase in demand.
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Rohnert Park, CA, November 12, 2018 — IDEX Health & Science, LLC today announced the official opening of its new state-of-the-art facility in Rochester, New York that will enable scalable future growth of its optical components, sub-systems, and filters business.
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