Monthly archives: July, 2013

Pulsed laser power part 2

In a previous post, we discussed how peak power is computed. Although Ti:Sapph laser manufacturers typically quote the average power, peak power is the more relevant quantity for two photon excitation. Here’s a graph showing how…



Optogenetics scattering iOS app

Here’s an iOS app which is basically a scattering calculator to help plan optogenetics experiments. There are also some plates from a brain atlas.
(via the OpenOptogenetics blog)



Waterloo graphics for MATLAB

Undocumented MATLAB has another post on improving graphics in MATLAB (previously). Waterloo is an easy-to-install package that generates nice graphics using Java. It can be used with MATLAB, R, and other software.