Olympus 10x for two-photon microscopy
Posted in Hardware
Olympus released a suite of new objectives this year, and one of them is this 10x/0.6 NA. This is probably the longest focal length (180/10 = 18 mm) objective you can get and use with a…
Monthly archives: December, 2014
How to wrap cables
Posted in Tips
I like things clean and organized. I’m basically Martha Stewart. With more lasers and fewer indictments.
Depending on the length of the cord and its minimum bend radius, several different wrapping styles can be acceptable. Here are some…
Rube Goldberg machine using light and optics
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It’s an ad for a Japanese company’s fiber optic network. In the US, we call these Rube Goldberg machines. In Japan, they’re called Pythagorean Switches (actually). In the UK, they’re called Heath Robinson machines.
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Patch clamp amplifier in chip form
Posted in Hardware
See that metal box the pipette holder is attached to? That’s not a headstage, that’s the whole patch clamp amplifier. Reid Harrison is the lead author (co-senior authors are Craig Forest and Ed Boyden) on a…
100 billion frames per s
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Yes, that’s what you think it is. Courtesy of a compressed sensing + streak camera rig made by Liang Gao, Jinyang Liang, Chiye Li & Lihong V. Wang.
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