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These case studies show how collaboration and innovation come together to produce measurable outcomes.
Case Study: Drug Discovery: Carterra® LSA Platform Accelerates Lifesaving Antibody Drug Development
View/print as a PDF Figure 1: Carterra LSA platform with proprietary HT-SPR technology enables a disruption in antibody discovery and development Carterra® is a leading provider of pharmaceutical R&D instruments that accelerate the discovery of novel therapeutic antibody candidates. Carterra’s founder and leaders of engineering and research contacted Optikos with a revolutionary idea that would dramatically improve the efficiency of antibody screening for pharmaceutical companies. Their vision was a fully integrated, screening and characterization platform that would combine their patented flow printing microfluidics with real-time high-throughput surface plasmon resonance (HT-SPR) optical detection. This system coupled with one-of-a-kind software capabilities, if successful, would deliver many times the data in a fraction of the time, with minuscule sample...
Measuring Folded Optics
Technology is constantly evolving, and as it does, the strain and need for cutting-edge optics grows. As manufacturers strive to make infrared cameras smaller and smaller, they often employ a folded optical system in which the optical axis of the front of the lens is not on the same line as the optical axis exiting the lens. This often leads to an image plane that is folded 90-degrees to the front of the lens. This fold can be in either the horizontal or vertical plane. Optikos developed the SD-800 and SD-900 image analyzers to easily access these folded image plane locations. The design challenges included implementing accurate rotation in two axes: one to rotate to four viewing positions (up, down,...
Optics And Design for Fluorescent Imaging
Our client was creating a highly sensitive fluorescent imaging system for biomedical use, and Optikos was contacted to develop the mechanical design. The client had already selected their lens supplier, but did not have specific experience in this type of vendor selection and optical testing results from the original lenses were subpar. We performed measurements on the mechanics and the optics and found the optics to be out of spec, so we notified our customer about the issue and contacted one of our trusted suppliers to ensure delivery of optimal lenses. Our team was able to obtain the new lenses very quickly, and the system subsequently performed exactly as the customer needed with the new components and mechanical design. Our...
Infrared Automotive Lenses
Optics for the Road Ahead Leading automotive manufacturers are relying heavily on infrared cameras to improve vehicle performance and safety, especially in challenging environments such as night time, heavy fog, and snowy conditions with reduced visible illumination. Because the performance of the infrared optics is critical in these systems, most automotive manufacturers require all lenses be tested, rather than a small sample of lenses from each lot. The LensCheck LWIR system is an ideal choice for evaluating the performance of these infrared lenses which are found in automobiles every day on roads around the globe. Have a project in mind? Get started here.
Large Area Optics
MATERION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS "The technical expertise and skills of the Large Optics Equipment Development Team enabled our success. These included Materion technical oversight provided by Ian Tribick. Dale L’Hussier managed the day-to-day activities and planning of the construction project. Steve Chiavaroli led the Dynavac team, John Prittie led the Interlab team and Steve Fantone led the Optikos team. Steve Chiavaroli and David Imrie of Optikos made significant contributions to this paper. Their work is gratefully acknowledged." Have a project in mind? Get started here.
