Biophotonics Industry

INDUSTRY BACKGROUND

The medical device, pharmaceutical development, life and analytical science industries all place a premium on quality. Decisions about treatment, investment in new drugs or analysis of results all require highly accurate, well-controlled methods and procedures. As shown in the sequencing of the human genome, there is also great pressure to accelerate the speed and sensitivity of testing. This relentless rate of innovation makes it difficult to keep up with evolving methods, while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and maintaining cost effectiveness.

Clearly, there is an abundant need for innovative technologies with wide-ranging areas of application. Meeting a seemingly conflicting desire for both control and flexibility in these applications, technologies like OneLight Spectra are lighting the path to a much larger, evolving process of discovery.

Markets

RESEARCH INSTRUMENT MARKETS

Life & Analytical Science researchers have a need for standalone programmable light sources that can be used as part of a research spectroscopy, microscopy or spectral imaging system. The outcome of this research often leads to new techniques that are integrated into commercial spectroscopy instruments.

LIFE AND ANALYTICAL SCIENCE INSTRUMENT MARKETS

The analytical instruments markets for OneLight includes instruments that use light to quantify the results of a chemical or biochemical test; often in combination with reagent kits and test protocols. These instruments include ultraviolet-visible light (UV-Vis) and infrared spectrometers, microplate readers, clinical chemistry/immunoassay analyzers and separation technologies such as chromatography and electrophoresis. Increasingly, older biochemical analysis technologies, as well as new methods such as microarray screening, are being incorporated into automated analysis systems used in genomics and proteomics.

MICROSCOPY INSTRUMENT MARKETS

The microscopy markets for OneLight encompass optical microscopy instruments used in the biological sciences (including medical laboratories), industrial microscopes used for inspection and process monitoring in semiconductor and other industries, as well as surgical, clinical and ophthalmic microscopes.

ENDOSCOPY INSTRUMENT MARKETS

The endoscopy instrument markets for OneLight include both xenon and metal halide lamp endoscopy light sources. These instruments are used in minimally invasive surgery, including laparoscopy and arthroscopy. They are also used for examination of the body passages and airways in bronchoscopy, gastroscopy, colonoscopy and ear, nose and throat (ENT) examinations, as well as for intubation (fitting of breathing tubes for resuscitation or anesthesia).