The back of the plastic reflector is shaped like a row of 90 o prisms. Total internal reflection occurs. All the light bounces back and is returned in the direction from which it came. No matter ...

Light that is reflected back from the edge of the medium it is traveling through. When light rays travel at an angle greater than the "critical" angle, which is determined by the medium, the light ...

The DeltaVision OMX V4 enables Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy (TIRF). This technique uses an evanescent wave to selectively excite fluorophores that are close to the coverslip. This ...

In 1943, the two German scientists Goos and Hänchen performed an experiment showing that in total internal reflection a light beam acquires a lateral shift; this can be seen as a positional ...

Total internal reflection prevents light inserted into one end of the fibre from escaping through the sides. Transferring information optically in this way enables much higher transmission rates ...

Lab-grown muscle stem cells from mice mimic the formation of muscle fibers in vivo. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal space is essential to prevent ...

The Wolfson Bioimaging Facility provides total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRF) with its multi-laser, dual-camera Olympus/Abbelight SAFe360 system which also offers single molecule ...