Photonics Spectra - January 2012

a frame grabber. It provides a 20-Mb/s uplink for communications and control from host to camera. The interface offers precise triggering capability and fixed low latency, and it can provide up to 13 W of 24-V power to the camera. Imperx sales@imperx.com

Extra Large Slide Scanning

Leica Microsystems GmbH’s SCN400 and
SCN400 F line scanners capture the largest
area in digital pathology. This release in the
company’s total digital pathology portfolio pro-
vides a new level of flexibility, enabling the
scanning of a wide range of samples on a sin-
gle system. The scanners can capture traditional
26 ; 76-mm, double 52 ; 76-mm and now
jumbo 113 ; 76-mm slides in either bright field
or fluorescence. Users of the SCN400 digital
slide scanner range can implement large slide
scanning without hardware changes or physical
updates to their scanners. This advancement is
suitable for research in neuroscience, toxicologi-
cal pathology and for anyone dealing with large
tissue sections.

RSoft Design Group Inc. has released its LED
Utility for LED designers. Because LEDs are used
in many applications, there is a demand for op-
timized structures with higher extraction effi-
ciency and improved color uniformity. The tool
can shorten processing time and save develop-
ment cost by providing accurate computer-
based simulation and design optimization. It
simulates novel LED structures and all materials
involved. With its flagship simulation tool Full-
Wave, it uses the company’s CAD environment
to describe the geometry and material proper-
ties. The CAD interface is a parametric design
environment with 3-D editing capabilities to
simplify the description of complex LED geome-
tries. The Full Wave simulation is based on the
finite-difference time-domain algorithm, which
makes it suitable for modeling the intricacies of
an LED structure.
RSoft Design Group Inc.
info@rsoftdesign.com

LAMBDA VF- 5

Tunable filter changer

NE W!

Introducing the world’s first filter changer to use tunable thin-film optical filters. The Sutter LAMBDA VF- 5 allows you to quickly access any center bandpass from 330 to 800nm in nanometer increments. Building on the VersaChrome® filters from Semrock®, the LAMBDA VF- 5 maintains transmission over the tuning range of each filter.