Advanced Laser Applications Using World Star Tech Lasers2

V Lulevich, C Honig, WA Ducker – Review of scientific instruments, 2005 – aip.scitation.org
… A thermoelectrically cooled diode laser ( 532 nm , 10 mW , TECGL-10, World Star
Tech., Canada) or an Ar-ion water-cooled laser ( 488 nm line of 1 W , Innova
Enterprise 2, model 610, CA, USA) was used as the light source. …
Abstract:
We present a simple method for causing the end of a silicon nitride atomic force microscope (AFM) tip to emit light, and we use this emitted light to perform scanning near-field optical microscopy. Illumination of a silicon nitride AFM tip by blue (488nm)(488nm) or green (532nm)(532nm) laser light causes the sharp part of the tip to emit orange light. Orange light is emitted when the tip is immersed in either air or water; and while under illumination, emission continues for a period of many hours without photobleaching. By careful alignment of the incident beam, we can arrange the scattered light to decay as a function of the tip-substrate separation with a decay length of 100–200nm. The exponential decay of the intensity means that the emitted light is dominated by contributions from parts of the tip that are near the sample, and therefore the emitted orange light can be used to capture high-resolution near-field optical images in air or water.

http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.2149149

Next generation Advanced Laser Fluorometry (ALF) for characterization of natural aquatic environments: new instruments
Abstract
The new optical design allows single- or multi-wavelength excitation of laser-stimulated emission (LSE), provides optimized LSE optical collection for spectral and temporal analyses, and incorporates swappable modules for flow-through and small-volume sample measurements. The basic instrument configuration uses 510 nm laser excitation for assessments of chlorophyll-a, phycobiliprotein pigments, variable fluorescence (Fv/Fm) and chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) in CDOM-rich waters. The three-laser instrument configuration (375, 405, and 510 nm excitation laser provided by World Star Tech ) provides additional Fv/Fm measurements with 405 nm excitation, CDOM assessments in a broad concentration range, and potential for spectral discrimination between oil and CDOM fluorescence. The new measurement protocols, analytical algorithms and examples of laboratory and field measurements are discussed.
https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-21-12-14181

CT McKee, WA Ducker – Langmuir, 2005 – ACS Publications
… The evanescent wave was generated using a 532-nm diode laser (TECGL-10, World Star Tech,
Toronto, Canada). The scattered evanescent light was collected with a Nikon LU Plan 50×/0.55
objective and transferred to a photomultiplier tube (H5784-20 Hamamatsu). figure …
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=yhD3140AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

M Schwering, A Kiel, A Kurz… – Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 – Wiley Online Library
TIRFM data was acquired on a custom-built TIRFM setup consisting of a Zeiss Axioinvert 200
equipped with a laser emitting at 532 nm (World Star Tech TECGL-30: 532 nm; 30 mW, cw, Toronto,
Canada), which was coupled into to the microscope through the back port. …
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201006013/abstract