DIVE lasers

DIVE lasers

The DIVE has the following visible solid state lasers for confocal microscopy.

Wavelength

Colour

Example dyes

405

 

DAPI, Hoechst

448

 

CFP

488

 

GFP, Alexa 488

514

 

YFP

561

 

mCherry, Alexa 568

638

 

Cy5, Alexa 647

The infrared laser for multiphoton microscopy is a Coherent Discovery NX with a fixed line at 1040 nm that can be used for red dyes such as tdTomato and mCherry, and a tuneable line that can be adjusted between 660 nm and 1320 nm. The fixed and tuneable lines can be used simultaneously.