Aurox Clarity

Aurox’s patented structured illumination

Designed to fit virtually any microscope or steromicroscope, Clarity uses Aurox’s patented structured illumination technology and a spinning disc to achieve high resolution, high quality confocal images, fast, easily and affordably.

Clarity has a standard microscope C-mount connector and a range of coupling adaptors – spacers to fit historical and new microscope models from all major manufacturers.

It can be mounted on upright and inverted microscopes, left or right camera ports. It can even be added to steromicroscopes!

Standard Features

• Laser free confocal
• Full spectrum (370 – 700 nm)
• Excellent confocality
• High throughput
• Highly cost effective
• A range of interchangeable filter turrets
• Real-time control and viewing (up to 100 fps)

Clarity is extremely compact, having dimensions 308 x 226 x 135 mm (WDH) and weighing <6Kg.

Connect to CMOS and CCD

Clarity can be connected to a wide range of large format sCMOS and CCD cameras. Selected cameras can be purchased directly from Aurox with your Clarity.

If you already have a camera, a wide range are supported by our Visionary software for use with Clarity.

Supported cameras/detectors include:

• Hamamatsu Orca Flash 4.0 V3
• Hamamatsu Orca Flash 4 LT
• Hamamatsu Orca Flash 4 V2 (USB 3.0)
• PCO Panda
• PCO Edge 5.5 USB3
• Photometrics 95 Prime BSI
• Photometrics 95 Prime B
• Andor Zyla 5.5 USB
• Tucsan Dhyana BSI

Internal 4-position filter cube turret

Clarity incorporates an internal 4-position filter cube turret, accessed via an external door. The turret accepts Aurox’s custom sized filter cubes which incorporate both emission and excitation filters. These filter cubes are user exchangeable and quick and easy to replace by hand and without tools.

A wide range of Aurox filter cubes are available to cover the commonly used bandwidths, which include multi-pass quad band filter cubes.

Custom filter cubes can be produced for your specific research application needs.

Fast and easy to use

Clarity comes with the Aurox Visionary device control and image acquisition software.

Fast and easy to use, Visionary presents all experiment set-up and device controls in one colour coded work-flow, under a single graphical user interface window.

Key features of Visionary include:

• z-stack imaging
• Mosaic image tiling
• Time-lapse & multi-channel multi-position imaging
• Confocal, wide-field & bright-field modes
• 3 sectioning modes for optimised resolution or speed
• OME-TIFF file format
• One-click image export

For more complicated experimental set-up or control, Clarity can also be controlled using a customised Aurox Micromanager.

Up to 100 frames per second

The high speed version, ClarityHS provides up to 100 frames per second imaging when paired with a compatible high speed camera e.g. Hamamatsu Flash 4.0 V3 with “Camera link option” and a Shuttle computer.

Stand alone instrument and control

Clarity has the option of delivery with an instrument control computer installed with the Aurox Visionary software. The computer is connected by USB and can be either a compact NUC or a Shuttle PC.

LED and metal halide light sources

Designed for use with LED and metal halide light sources, Clarity is free from laser safety restrictions and benefits from low photo-toxicity, low-bleaching, low maintenance and low cost of ownership.

Selected light sources are available directly from Aurox with your Clarity.

If you already have a light source then please contact us to discover whether or not it is supported.

Light source options include:

• Andor AMH200
• Exfo X-Cite 120PC-Q
• Exfo X-Cite 120 LED
• Lumencor Sola
• Lumencor Spectra X
• Cool LED pE-300
• Cool LED pE-400
• Cool LED pE- 800
• Cool LED pE-4000
• Prior Lumen 200