The life sciences comprise the study of living organisms such as plants, animals, and human beings. While biology and medicine remain centerpieces of the life sciences, technological advances in molecular biology and biotechnology have led to a burgeoning of specializations and new, often interdisciplinary, fields. Our company is active in developing ultrafast lasers for several fields including Fluorescent Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM), TCSPC, Raman microscopy, CARS microscopy, multiphoton imaging, nanosurgery, optical tweezers, to name a few.

Time-Bandwidth Products AG actively participates in the FP7 EU consortium FastDot  (www.fast-dot.eu) aiming to develop novel laser technologies based on quantum dots for biomedical applications such as multiphoton imaging and nanosurgery.

Our related lasers are Lynx, GLX-Yb, GLX-200, Pallas, and Tiger.

The following are example images obtained with our GLX-Yb laser in collaboration with Dr. George Filippidis and George Tserevelakis at FORTH, Greece.

Starch granules 2-D images (THG-third harmonic generation, SHG-second harmonic generation):

HeLa cancer cells 2D THG image:

HeLa cancer cells 3D THG imaging by combining 14 sequential slices of 2D images:

HeLa cancer cells (imaged by THG) perforated with gold nanorods (imaged by TPL - Two Photon Luminescence):