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Arryx, Inc. develops tools and technology for manipulation and measurement on the micro and nano lengthscales. Arryx's technology and products center around optical trapping. They specialize in holographic optical trapping, a technique for creating and moving many optical traps at once. Their technology is commercialized in the form of a flagship research tool, the BioRyx 200 optical trapping system. Arryx has investigated the application of the technique to an array of problems in different fields including telecommunications, agriculture, healthcare, basic research, and forensics.
Arryx was founded in the fall of 2000, based on technology invented at the University of Chicago by Professor David Grier and his student Eric Dufresne a couple years earlier. Their BioRyx 200 system was released in early 2002 and won an R&D 100 Award later that year. An IR version of the system was released in 2004 for broader application to biological systems, with support of additional imaging methods including fluorescent microscopy.
In July 2006, Arryx was acquired by Haemonetics, with whom they had an ongoing partnership. Their announcement states that Arryx personnel and operations will remain in Chicago. They continue to support and expand their product line of research instruments, based around the BioRyx 200, as they pursue development of the underlying holographic optical trapping technologies and applications of that technology in various markets.
BioRyx® 200 Optical Trapping System
The most advanced and flexible optical trapping system ever created
Optical traps, also known as laser tweezers, provide the ability to non-invasively capture and manipulate microscopic objects such as cells, vesicles, and colloidal particles. The BioRyx 200 system employs Arryx's proprietary holographic optical trapping (HOT) technology to produce hundreds of optical traps, each of which can be independently configured and controlled with the HOTgui software.
FEATURES
Create up to 200 optical traps
Each trap is independently configurable and movable in three dimensions
Control traps in real time, or with programmable paths
Multiple trap types: point traps, vertical and horizontal line traps, optical vortices
Compatible with a variety of imaging techniques including brightfield, phase contrast, fluorescent imaging, DIC, darkfield, polarized light, and reflected light
Very easy to use and maintain.
Arryx HOTkitTM: Holographic Optical Trapping Kit
Performance, Productivity, and Affordability
The HOTkit combines a state-of-the-art phase-only spatial light modulator (SLM) manufactured by Boulder Nonlinear Systems with powerful, fast, and easy-to-use software from Arryx. Together they form the basis for an interactive holographic optical trapping (HOT) system. The HOTkit enables experienced researchers to implement the most advanced and powerful optical trapping capabilities on their own optical benches.
HOTkit Hardware:
The spatial light modulator (SLM) is the heart of a holographic trapping system.
The HOTkit delivers the best SLM available:
Stable trap power (zero flicker and droop)
Available in 5 wavelength ranges, from 515 nm to 1650 nm
Exceptional optical flatness: at 532 nm, at 1064 nm
Video-rate hologram updating; 30Hz at 532 nm, 15Hz at 1064 nm
High-speed model available
Choose from standard and high laser power models
See the HOTkit Specifications for more details and system requirements.
HOTkit Software Options:
Arryx's three HOTkit packages offer flexibility in selecting for ease of use, level of control, and customizability. With all packages, one may select from the full range of SLM options.
HOTkit Standard
HOTkit Standard comes with the HOTgui software used by the award-winning BioRyx 200 system. This application offers real-time three-dimensional control of optical traps and video data collection capabilities with a user-friendly mouse-driven interface.
See the HOTgui Software page for more details and movies showing the software in action.
HOTkit Developer
HOTkit Developer includes the HOTapi application programmer's interface (API), which provides lower-level access to optical trapping functions and enables users to create their own control routines. The HOTgui application software is also included.
See the HOT API Software page for more details.
HOTkit Advanced
HOTkit Advanced offers LabRyx, an advanced user interface that provides video and optical trapping controls beyond those available in the HOTgui application, as well as, extensibility through LabVIEW. The HOTgui application software is also included.
Arryx® Software Products
Optical trapping software products to meet your needs
Arryx offers a variety of optical trapping software products for use with the BioRyx® 200 system. Here is a brief overview of available software products. Choose the software products that best match your needs.
HOTgui Software
The HOTgui application software provides a powerful graphical interface for point-and-click trap usage. The application software is standard on all BioRyx 200 Optical Trapping Systems. The most recent release, version 3.2, has added some new features including new trap shapes, support for multiple objective lenses and an on screen ruler.
See the HOTgui Software page for more details and movies showing the software in action.
HOT APITM Software
The HOT API is a full-featured and easy-to-use Holographic Optical Trapping Application Programmer's Interface. The HOT API provides advanced access for users who want to write their own optical trapping programs. The most recent release, version 1.2, provides expanded functionality which is not available in the standard HOTgui software.
See the HOT API Software page for more details.
LabRyxTM Software
The LabRyx Software is an alternative software interface designed for power users. Users have enhanced imaging capabilities and advanced control of optical trapping functions.
BioRyx® 200 Accessories
With numerous accessories, you can customize the BioRyx 200 system to meet your specific research needs
In addition to the standard equipment, a variety of optional accessories are available for use with the BioRyx 200 system. Arryx has also provided custom-designed accessories for some users upon request.
BioRyx 200 Accessories:
Software options
Multiple imaging modes
Camera options
Tables and enclosures
Sample stage options
Consumables - slides, flow chips and more
Custom-designed systems
'Laser Cutter'
Software options:
Standard HOTgui software allows for simple operation with minimal training even by users unfamiliar with optical trapping providing point-and-click simplicity.
Optional HOT API software allows for higher level access to optical trapping functions for application programmers to allow direct control through many programming languages, including LabVIEW, MATLAB, IDL, C, and C++.
Optional LabRyx software, written with LabVIEW, allows for advanced trap controls and integration with other scientific devices and provides support for a broader array of scientific cameras.
Microscope Imaging Accessories:
Standard brightfield transmitted illumination
Phase contrast microscopy components - useful for imaging cells and cellular components
Polarized light microscopy components - useful for birefringent materials
Reflected light microscopy components - for working with opaque substrates
Differential interference contrast (DIC) components - designed to work with the BioRyx 200 system without interfering with trapping
Darkfield microscopy components - useful for imaging very small objects
Epi-fluorescence attachment - Includes UV source and fluorescence cube. (LabRyx software is recommended for use with higher sensitivity cameras.)
Selection of objectives for ideal trapping of various sample configurations
Cameras:
Standard analog camera allows video and still image capture
Selection of Q-Imaging Retiga and other scientific cameras (require LabRyx Software)
Stage Accessories:
Prior ProScan II motorized stage with joystick and RS232 controls- accepts 1x3" microscope slides
Optional Universal Sample adapter stage insert
Arryx custom-designed plastic sample stage adapters
Sample and objective warmers
Arryx was founded in the fall of 2000, based on technology invented at the University of Chicago by Professor David Grier and his student Eric Dufresne a couple years earlier. Their BioRyx 200 system was released in early 2002 and won an R&D 100 Award later that year. An IR version of the system was released in 2004 for broader application to biological systems, with support of additional imaging methods including fluorescent microscopy.
In July 2006, Arryx was acquired by Haemonetics, with whom they had an ongoing partnership. Their announcement states that Arryx personnel and operations will remain in Chicago. They continue to support and expand their product line of research instruments, based around the BioRyx 200, as they pursue development of the underlying holographic optical trapping technologies and applications of that technology in various markets.
BioRyx® 200 Optical Trapping System
The most advanced and flexible optical trapping system ever created
Optical traps, also known as laser tweezers, provide the ability to non-invasively capture and manipulate microscopic objects such as cells, vesicles, and colloidal particles. The BioRyx 200 system employs Arryx's proprietary holographic optical trapping (HOT) technology to produce hundreds of optical traps, each of which can be independently configured and controlled with the HOTgui software.
FEATURES
Create up to 200 optical traps
Each trap is independently configurable and movable in three dimensions
Control traps in real time, or with programmable paths
Multiple trap types: point traps, vertical and horizontal line traps, optical vortices
Compatible with a variety of imaging techniques including brightfield, phase contrast, fluorescent imaging, DIC, darkfield, polarized light, and reflected light
Very easy to use and maintain.
Arryx HOTkitTM: Holographic Optical Trapping Kit
Performance, Productivity, and Affordability
The HOTkit combines a state-of-the-art phase-only spatial light modulator (SLM) manufactured by Boulder Nonlinear Systems with powerful, fast, and easy-to-use software from Arryx. Together they form the basis for an interactive holographic optical trapping (HOT) system. The HOTkit enables experienced researchers to implement the most advanced and powerful optical trapping capabilities on their own optical benches.
HOTkit Hardware:
The spatial light modulator (SLM) is the heart of a holographic trapping system.
The HOTkit delivers the best SLM available:
Stable trap power (zero flicker and droop)
Available in 5 wavelength ranges, from 515 nm to 1650 nm
Exceptional optical flatness: at 532 nm, at 1064 nm
Video-rate hologram updating; 30Hz at 532 nm, 15Hz at 1064 nm
High-speed model available
Choose from standard and high laser power models
See the HOTkit Specifications for more details and system requirements.
HOTkit Software Options:
Arryx's three HOTkit packages offer flexibility in selecting for ease of use, level of control, and customizability. With all packages, one may select from the full range of SLM options.
HOTkit Standard
HOTkit Standard comes with the HOTgui software used by the award-winning BioRyx 200 system. This application offers real-time three-dimensional control of optical traps and video data collection capabilities with a user-friendly mouse-driven interface.
See the HOTgui Software page for more details and movies showing the software in action.
HOTkit Developer
HOTkit Developer includes the HOTapi application programmer's interface (API), which provides lower-level access to optical trapping functions and enables users to create their own control routines. The HOTgui application software is also included.
See the HOT API Software page for more details.
HOTkit Advanced
HOTkit Advanced offers LabRyx, an advanced user interface that provides video and optical trapping controls beyond those available in the HOTgui application, as well as, extensibility through LabVIEW. The HOTgui application software is also included.
Arryx® Software Products
Optical trapping software products to meet your needs
Arryx offers a variety of optical trapping software products for use with the BioRyx® 200 system. Here is a brief overview of available software products. Choose the software products that best match your needs.
HOTgui Software
The HOTgui application software provides a powerful graphical interface for point-and-click trap usage. The application software is standard on all BioRyx 200 Optical Trapping Systems. The most recent release, version 3.2, has added some new features including new trap shapes, support for multiple objective lenses and an on screen ruler.
See the HOTgui Software page for more details and movies showing the software in action.
HOT APITM Software
The HOT API is a full-featured and easy-to-use Holographic Optical Trapping Application Programmer's Interface. The HOT API provides advanced access for users who want to write their own optical trapping programs. The most recent release, version 1.2, provides expanded functionality which is not available in the standard HOTgui software.
See the HOT API Software page for more details.
LabRyxTM Software
The LabRyx Software is an alternative software interface designed for power users. Users have enhanced imaging capabilities and advanced control of optical trapping functions.
BioRyx® 200 Accessories
With numerous accessories, you can customize the BioRyx 200 system to meet your specific research needs
In addition to the standard equipment, a variety of optional accessories are available for use with the BioRyx 200 system. Arryx has also provided custom-designed accessories for some users upon request.
BioRyx 200 Accessories:
Software options
Multiple imaging modes
Camera options
Tables and enclosures
Sample stage options
Consumables - slides, flow chips and more
Custom-designed systems
'Laser Cutter'
Software options:
Standard HOTgui software allows for simple operation with minimal training even by users unfamiliar with optical trapping providing point-and-click simplicity.
Optional HOT API software allows for higher level access to optical trapping functions for application programmers to allow direct control through many programming languages, including LabVIEW, MATLAB, IDL, C, and C++.
Optional LabRyx software, written with LabVIEW, allows for advanced trap controls and integration with other scientific devices and provides support for a broader array of scientific cameras.
Microscope Imaging Accessories:
Standard brightfield transmitted illumination
Phase contrast microscopy components - useful for imaging cells and cellular components
Polarized light microscopy components - useful for birefringent materials
Reflected light microscopy components - for working with opaque substrates
Differential interference contrast (DIC) components - designed to work with the BioRyx 200 system without interfering with trapping
Darkfield microscopy components - useful for imaging very small objects
Epi-fluorescence attachment - Includes UV source and fluorescence cube. (LabRyx software is recommended for use with higher sensitivity cameras.)
Selection of objectives for ideal trapping of various sample configurations
Cameras:
Standard analog camera allows video and still image capture
Selection of Q-Imaging Retiga and other scientific cameras (require LabRyx Software)
Stage Accessories:
Prior ProScan II motorized stage with joystick and RS232 controls- accepts 1x3" microscope slides
Optional Universal Sample adapter stage insert
Arryx custom-designed plastic sample stage adapters
Sample and objective warmers