Name and Model (Year of Manufacture / Installation)

Leica TCS SP8X Falcon (2019/2019)

General Information

High resolution and sensitive confocal system for live and fixed cell imaging. A resonant scanner enables the imaging of rapidly occurring cellular events and also fast large area imaging.

Leica SP8 X confocal microscope is equipped with Lightning and Falcon Freely pulsed laser and acusto-optical beam splitter and highly sensitive hybrid detectors and extremely fast resonant scanner.

Key Specifications

• System provides up to 120 nm resolution
• Excitation laser: 405nm diode, freely tunable supercontinuum 470-670 nm pulsed white laser
• Acusto-optical beam splitter: freely adjustable detector range between 400-800 nm
• Five detectors: two PMTs and three single molecule HyDs capable of lifetime and FCS measurements
• Scanners: High resolution galvanometric and high speed resonant scanners

Key Features

• Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM). 
• Fast Fluorescence Lifetime Contrast (FALCON)
• Real time adaptive deconvolution (LIGHTNING) to maximize resolution and contrast in captured images.
• Software: LAS X with LIGHTNING, Navigator and FLIM
• Autofocus hardware or software-based
• Inverted Leica DMi8
• Controlled environmental conditions for live cell imaging (temperature, CO2)