Leica TCS SP8

Details

Manufacturer: Leica

Location: Britannia 104

Acquisition Date: 2018

Configuration: Inverted

From live cell to quantitative imaging, from super-sensitivity to super-resolution, from multiphoton to light sheet imaging – with the Leica TCS SP8 Confocal platform you can always expand your possibilities. 

With LIGHTNING Image Information Extraction. Maximize the information you extract from your specimen and get in-depth answers to scientific questions with the detection package for image information extraction.

• Reveal the most information from your images and resolve nanoscale structures down to 120 nm

• Obtain real-time results even for ambitious experimental conditions

• Maintain resolution and speed for multi-channel data acquisition

• Prism spectrometer for detection of fluorescence in the range 400 nm - 800 nm. Freely tunable emission band with precision of 1nm

• Two high sensitivity low noise HyD hybrid fluorescence detectors with possibility of photon counting mode

• One fluorescence and one transmitted light PMT detectors

• Fully motorized XY stage suitable for slides, Petri dishes and plates

• High precision galvo Z-drive

• LAS X Lightning, FRET and FRAP program modules with hardware FRAP booster

Objectives for Microscope:

• HC PL FLUOTAR 5x/0.15

• HC PL FLUOTAR 10x/0.30

• HC PL APO 20x/0.75 CS2

• HC PL APO 20x/0.75 IMM CORR

• HC PL APO 40x/1.10 W CORR

• HC PL APO 63x/1.40 OIL CS2

Filter Cubes:

• Filter Cube DAPI

• Filter Cube TXR

• Filter Cube GFP

Laser-UV-VIS:

• Laser 405 nm DMOD Compact

• Laser Blue 488 nm

• Laser Turquoise 514 nm

• Laser Green 552 nm

• Laser Red 638 nm