The BD FACSAria instrument is the first benchtop sorter that incorporates a fixed-alignment cuvette flow cell. The fixed optical alignment frees the operator from tedious instrument optimization, allowing the focus to center on the science rather than the instrument. The cuvette flow cell achieves high sensitivity in signal detection with low-powered lasers, allowing air-cooled and solid state lasers to be utilized in this system.
Fiber optics direct and focus the laser light in a precise and constant manner on the sample core stream. Fiber optics steer the three lasers, 488 nm, 633 nm, and 405 nm, onto
the alignment prisms, and then the lasers are focused on the cuvette flow cell. Because the placement of the sample core stream within the cuvette flow cell and the laser alignment are fixed, daily instrument optimization of the cytometer is no longer necessary.
2 Units are available for purchase.
