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COOLLED appoints precisExcite business development manager

COOLLED has appointed Jim Beacher as business development manager for the company's precisExciteŠ fluorescence excitation system that uses new, high-power LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) to provide an improved light source for fluorescence microscopes. Beacher joins the company with almost twenty years experience in optics, specialising in thin film technology and microscopy.

Despite their inherent advantages over traditional mercury based light sources, until now LEDs have not been bright enough to be used as the light source of fluorescence microscopes. Now, because of the development of new LED array technology, the COOLLED PrecisExcite is the first commercially viable unit of its kind and is designed to work with all types of fluorescence microscopes.

Nick Edwards, technical director of COOLLED, sees this as an important appointment and said: "precisExcite is proving an extremely attractive alternative to conventional mercury lamp light sources to users of fluorescence microscopes. It was important that we found someone like Jim Beacher, who has a great deal of experience in this field, to promote this exciting new product throughout the UK and Europe."

Beacher said: "Fluorescence microscopy needs a reliable, stable light source that does not degrade throughout its life. PrecisExcite provides the life science microscopist with an instant source of light that can be precisely controlled and is more efficient and cost-effective than conventional light sources that require a warm-up and cool-down period and use bulbs that fade and have to be replaced.

"The unit is particularly suited for confocal microscopy where fast alignment is beneficial and for time-lapse studies where there is risk of damage to the sample from extended exposure to light from conventional sources."

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