{"id":901,"date":"2010-11-20T03:03:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=901"},"modified":"2010-11-20T03:03:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:03:43","slug":"thorlabs-scope-building-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/20\/thorlabs-scope-building-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorlabs scope building blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tl2.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"tl2\" width=\"488\" height=\"547\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-908\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tl2.png 488w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tl2-267x300.png 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the SfN meeting in San Diego this year, I met Jeff Brooker from Thorlabs. Jeff and his team of about 17 people have a history of working together in industry on photonics. They have designed a series of modular pieces for custom 2p rigs. The pieces look great, and the ScanImage team is making a version to work with Thorlabs&#8217; resonant scanner. It&#8217;s really high quality stuff, and the modularity means that you don&#8217;t have to make compromises to take advantage of their systems. If they price it right, this could be a very popular product line. There&#8217;s a bare bones imaging system which includes a deformable mirror for wavefront modification, a prechirper box, and a beam conditioner. And the resonant scanning system, which offers 512 lines at 28 fps, includes an FPGA-based outboard processor to handle the nonlinear scanning.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/neuroptikon.org\/projects\/display\/shareddesigns\/Shared+Two-photon+Microscope+Designs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mm.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"mm\" width=\"580\" height=\"363\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-906\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mm.png 580w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mm-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Svoboda&#8217;s group also presented their open microscope designs. One is a variation on the Sutter MOM scope which allows for better overfilling of large back aperture objectives. The other is a non-rotating design that uses no parts from Sutter. The details are available online. (<a href=\"http:\/\/neuroptikon.org\/projects\/display\/shareddesigns\/Shared+Two-photon+Microscope+Designs\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>At the SfN meeting in San Diego this year, I met Jeff Brooker from Thorlabs. Jeff and his team of about 17 people have a history of working together in industry on photonics. They&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/20\/thorlabs-scope-building-blocks\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14,31,21],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-construction","tag-equipment","tag-imaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}