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Introducing the new ZIVA Light Engine for Yokogawa CSU-W1!
The Yokogawa CSU-W1 is a highly regarded spinning disk confocal scanner in widespread use for three-dimensional imaging of live cells, tissues, and microorganisms. The range of fluorescence excitation wavelengths provided by lighting installed on CSU-W1 systems is often limited to four lasers. Lumencor’s ZIVA Light Engine increases the number of lasers from four to seven at a price well below that of the CSU-W1 scanner. The ZIVA’s lasers are refined by bandpass filters, merged into a common optical train, passed through a despeckler, and directed to the light output port on the front panel. Output wavelength is selected by direct on/off switching of the lasers. The Light Engine output is directed to the Yokogawa CSU-W1 scanner through a precision-engineered adapter. This optical coupler provides intense and uniform illumination at the sample plane. All these capabilities are assembled in a compact, bench-top device with a 15 cm x 35 cm footprint.
more cameras within a single device. These developments, said Mordor, have impacted the demand for lenses in the smartphone market. In addition, slow but steady developments in security applications, such as facial recognition, are also generating demand for high-performance camera lenses in the smartphone sector. However, the report also highlighted that demand in the interchangeable and changeable camera market is likely to experience slower growth, largely thanks to the aforementioned improvement in the smartphone camera market. This, in-turn, could have an impact on the camera lens market, with the demand expected to remain relatively static at around 10 million in interchangeable and 11 million in non-interchangeable camera lenses.
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Vendors that offer lens technology include camera manufacturer Basler, which has its own range of standard and premium lenses. The standard product line is designed for fast cameras with a lower resolution. It has a good price/performance ratio, with lenses priced to correspond to the requirements of many cost-sensitive applications. The premium product line is available for more demanding applications, and the lenses offer high resolution, low distortion and low vignetting. IDS is another example of a camera manufacturer offering its own lens line. The company’s C-mount lens series provides resolutions of 5, 8 and 10 megapixels, as well as focal lengths of 4 to 75mm and different optical classes.
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The lenses cover sensor sizes from ½-inch to 1.1-inch. The aperture and focus can be fixed mechanically if required, which ensures brightness and image quality remain constant, even if the lens is exposed to vibration. Available from Edmund
Optics is a range of imaging lenses for a variety of imaging needs, including telecentric lenses, liquid lenses, those with fixed focal length, zoom lenses, and shortwave infrared imaging lenses. A selection of imaging lens accessories is also available, including filters, and mounts or adapters for additional functionality. Fujifilm offers a wide range of prime, zoom and telephoto lenses. Its most recent launch is the Fujinon GF35-70mm interchangeable lens for large- format cameras. Designed as a compact and lightweight
zoom lens, it weighs around 390g, with a focal length range covering from 35mm to 70mm. The company expects the portable form factor to help broaden the scope of applications for GFX camera systems, equipped with a large format sensor. Kowa lenses have been
used for applications in a wide range of industries such as automotive, logistics, pharmaceutical and food. They perform tasks such as defect detection, surface inspection or shape and dimensional inspection. Optotune’s focus-tunable
liquid lenses are designed to provide a versatile, compact and cost-effective solution to the challenge of keeping products in focus under the camera or quickly scanning various objects at different distances.
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