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6930314 Light detection device  
Apparatus and methods for optical illumination and/or detection with improved flexibility and/or read speed. The apparatus and methods may include mechanisms for selecting and switching between...
6927403 Illumination system that suppresses debris from a light source  
There is provided an illumination system for wavelengths of ≦193 nm. The illumination system includes an object plane, a plane conjugated to the object plane, a first collector between the object...
6927402 Device for detecting different fluorescence signals of a sample support illuminated with different excitation wavelengths  
Light sources are provided for generating rays of light of different excitation wavelengths, which can be directed toward the sample support by excitation optics. The fluorescent light emitted each...
6927401 Method of characterizing fluorescent molecules or other particles using generating functions  
A method for characterizing fluorescent molecules or other particles in samples comprising the steps of: a) monitoring fluctuating intensity of fluorescence emitted by the molecules or other...
6924490 Microscope system  
A microscope system is provided which includes a single microscope. The system includes a laser source, a light path splitting unit which splits a light path of a laser beam from the laser source...
6921908 Methods for fluorescence detection that minimizes undesirable background fluorescence  
The present invention provides a method for the excitation of a fluorescent sample and the measurement of the fluorescent emission. The method of the present invention has the advantage of...
6919571 Micro fluorescent electrophoresis detection system  
A micro fluorescent electrophoresis (EP) detection system for detecting fluorescent EP is disclosed. The size of the system is greatly minimized for carrying. The invention uses a laser diode with...
6914677 Device and method for optically measuring the concentration of a substance  
The invention relates to a device and a method for optically measuring the concentrations of a substance contained in a fluid medium. With the solution according to the invention the accuracy of...
6914720 Time resolved fluorescence microscope  
A time-resolved fluorescence microscope having high spatial and time resolution. Fluorescence from a sample 26 mounted on a confocal inverted optical microscope 19 and excitation laser light...
6914250 Fluorometric detection using visible light  
Systems, devices and methods of the present invention are for viewing a pattern of fluorophors capable of fluorescing when exposed to visible light, e.g., fluorescently stained DNA, protein or...
6912050 Phase shift measurement for luminescent light  
A phase shift measurement system comprises an excitation system, a luminescent material, and a detection system. The excitation system transfers an excitation light wave. The luminescent material...
6906859 Epi-illumination apparatus for fluorescent observation and fluorescence microscope having the same  
An epi-illumination apparatus for fluorescent observation, adjusting light intensities of a plurality of illuminations on a sample over a wide wavelength band continuously and being configured...
6903816 Mirror driving mechanism, and spectroscope and scanning laser microscope comprising mirror which is driven by mirror driving mechanism  
A mirror driving mechanism comprises a driver configured to drive at least one mirror which reflects a light flux while adjusting a wavelength width and a wavelength band of the light flux...
6903817 Method for optically detecting chemical species contained in condensed media  
A method for detecting chemical species present in a condensed medium including determining characteristic wavelengths and intensity values of back-scattered electromagnetic emission signals due to...
6900891 Optical sensors for the detection of nitric oxide  
Optical fiber sensors and fiberless optical sensors for measuring analytes, and in particular nitric oxide, are described utilizing metals, and more particularly, metal colloids. Proteins (or...
6897953 Method for measuring fluorescence, apparatus for measuring fluorescence and apparatus for evaluating sample using it  
In a fluorescence measuring method and apparatus, a sample S is irradiated with pulsed pumping light supplied from a pumping light source. Fluorescence generated by the sample S is detected by a...
6881962 Paper fluorescence detection sensor  
In the accurate inspection of a paper sheet (for example, the type and authenticity of banknotes) light incident on the paper sheet that is being transported is controlled to be constant. To...
6878947 Device for the simultaneous detection of radiation of different wavelengths  
A device for the simultaneous detection of radiation of different wavelength, comprising a number of base modules arranged one on top of the other, an optical module and an electronic module. One...
6878949 Gel imaging and excision  
A robot for imaging and excision of two-dimensional fluorescent gels. An array detector is mounted in the roof of the robot to image down onto a gel dish placed on a light table. Fluorescence is...
6870166 Maximum sensitivity optical scanning system  
A maximum sensitivity optical scanning system is disclosed. It finds use in a variety of applications, including the reading of biopolymeric arrays. It operates by scanning sample at a setting...
6870165 Multi-color multiplexed analysis in a bio-separation system  
A multi-channel and multi-color bio-separation detection method and apparatus in which a single detector is coupled to a plurality of radiation sources, in a one detector/many radiation sources...
6867420 Solid-state detector and optical system for microchip analyzers  
A miniaturized optical excitation and detector system is described for detecting fluorescently labeled analytes in electrophoretic microchips and microarrays. The system uses miniature integrated...
6867421 In-line process for monitoring binder dosage and distribution on a surface and apparatus useful therefor  
A method and apparatus for determining binder dosage and distribution on a substrate. The apparatus employed is made up of: a) a source of long wave ultraviolet light positioned so that...
6864975 Method of and system for analyzing a sample containing a plurality of fluorescent substances  
The present invention proposes a method of and system for analyzing samples (particularly, bio-samples), wherein the continuous spectrum white light pulse generated from an ultra-short optical...
6862093 Ruggedized forensic light source  
A forensic light source uses a pair of filter wheels to achieve a combination of the characteristics of filters on different wheels and may include a housing which supports the light, filter wheels...
6855941 Laser microscope  
A multiphoton excitation scanning laser microscope employs a laser beam source for oscillating a pulse laser beam having a wavelength range. A multiphoton excitation phenomenon takes place in a...
6852986 Fluorometer with low heat-generating light source  
This invention concerns a fluorometer preferably combined with a thermal cycler useful in biochemical protocols such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and DNA melting curve analysis. The present...
6850323 Locally enhanced raman spectroscopy with an atomic force microscope  
An atomic force microscope (AFM) tip is used to selectively produce surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) for localized Raman spectroscopy. Spectra of thin films, undetectable with a Raman...
6849855 Method for marking and identifying objects coated with up-conversion material  
A method of marking and identifying an object ( 10 ) by the marking consists of applying to an object ( 10 ) an up-conversion material ( 12 ), then irradiating the object ( 10 ) with infrared...
6844965 Apparatus for optical scanning of multiple specimens  
An apparatus for optical scanning of multiple specimens ( 1 ) and/or specimen regions, the specimens ( 1 ) being associated with a specimen receiving device ( 2 ) and being optically scannable by a...
6844558 Material measure and position measuring device comprising such a material measure  
A material measure includes a carrier substrate having a surface that includes at least one track having first porous subsections and second subsections. The first porous subsections and the second...
6844963 Double-resonance-absorption microscope  
The present invention provides various embodiments of a double-resonance-absorption microscope which realizes a super-resolution by using double resonance absorption. In particular, a...
6838680 Multiplexed fluorescent detection in microfluidic devices  
An optical detection and orientation device is provided comprising a housing having an excitation light source, an optical element for reflecting the excitation light to an aspherical lens and...
6839375 On-line quality control of the key optical components in lithography lasers using laser induced fluorescence  
Some of the key optical components of lithography lasers are very sensitive to intensive UV radiation. Intensive UV radiation can cause color center formation in these components. The color centers...
6838681 Detection and making of ultralow lead contaminated UV optical fluoride crystals for <200nm lithography  
The invention provides a method of detecting sub-ppm lead impurity levels in a below 200 nm transmitting optical calcium fluoride crystal. The method includes providing a below 200 nm wavelength...
6839134 Light measuring device avoiding influence of fluorescence or phosphorescence of lenses and filters in optical path  
At the time of analytical measurement of a sample by the fluorescence measuring device or the phosphorescence measuring device, both the optical path of exciting light emitted from the light source...
6835933 Spectrum measuring apparatus  
A spectrum measuring apparatus for measuring infrared, Raman and fluorescence spectra. The spectrum measuring apparatus includes an infrared source, a laser source, an infrared up-conversion object...
6835946 Image reading method and apparatus  
An image reading apparatus is adapted for irradiating an image carrier including a labeling substance contained in two-dimensionally distributed spots with a stimulating ray and photoelectrically...
6833916 High efficiency, large field scanning microscope  
A fluorescent optical imaging system ( 10 ) produces two separate spots (S 1 and S 2 ) on a sample ( 12 ) by a pair of excitation laser beams (B 1 and B 2 ) that are generated by first and second...
6833915 Optical diagnosis system for small animal imaging  
Optical diagnosis system for small animal imaging, in which the animal which has been arranged on a bearing plate and treated with an activatable optical contrast medium is irradiated by an...
6831279 Laser diode-excited biological particle detection system  
Apparatus is provided for detection of viable and potentially hazardous biological particles in a population which may be dispersed in fluid flow. The particles are characterized as biological and...
6831734 Method and apparatus for automated, in situ material detection using filtered fluoresced, reflected, or absorbed light  
A method and apparatus for detection of a particular material, such as photo-resist material, on a sample surface. A narrow beam of light is projected onto the sample surface and the fluoresced...
6831739 Compression-bonded probe window  
In an optical measurement probe of the type which incorporates a window configuration suited to on-line process control and other applications this invention provides an improved technique for...
6829051 Optical apparatus  
An optical apparatus including an illuminating optical system for illuminating a sample with light from a light source, a first wavelength selecting member, a light beam splitter for directing...
6828567 Optical detection in a multi-channel bio-separation system  
A multi-channel bio-separation detection method and apparatus in which a single detector is coupled to a plurality of radiation sources, in a one detector/many radiation sources configuration. Each...
6828568 Process for testing of fluophors and device for carrying out the process  
A method and apparatus for increasing the emission amount of red such that it is made the same as the emission amount of green and blue, to enable the application state of the fluophors to be...
6825929 Simultaneously reading different regions of a chemical array  
A method of interrogating an addressable array having a plurality of different chemical features. The method may include simultaneously illuminating different regions of the array with light of...
6825927 Controller for a fluorometer  
A method and apparatus relating to a controller for controlling a light emitting array by setting a power level provided to each individual light emission source within the light emitting array is...
6825928 Depth-resolved fluorescence instrument  
A fluorescence instrument illuminates the surface of tissue with light of a selected wavelength and light emanating from the tissue due to fluorescence is collected. The size of the effective...
6822242 Image data producing method and apparatus  
An image data producing apparatus includes comprising at least one stimulating ray source for emitting a stimulating ray, a stage on which an image carrier including independently formed and...