Until now, applications for CW ultraviolet lasers have had to use either legacy gas laser technology or mode-locked solid state lasers offering only pseudo-CW performance. Unfortunately, these mode-locked lasers generate peak powers at the kilowatt level and beyond, which can cause severe limitations in bio applications.
The CW, low-noise output of Genesis 355 is ideal for flow cytometry applications such as egg and fertilized-egg sorting, where the peak power of alternative mode-locked lasers poses significant risk of mutagenic damage to the DNA in the sorted cells. They are also well-suited to emerging confocal microscopy applications where their short wavelength and low M² beam are needed for optimum excitation of Hoechst and Indo dyes. These confocal microscopes often rely on fiber delivery which can be problematic with high peak power lasers.