Table A2.
Hardware components
| Component | Manufacturer | Part no. | Specifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| LED | Thorlabs, Newton, NJ, USA | M625L3 | 625 nm centre wavelength, 18 nm FWHM bandwidth, 700 mW, 1000 mA |
| Objectives | Thorlabs | TL2x‐SAP | ×2, 0.1 NA, 56.3 mm WD, 100 mm EFL (sample and light crafter) |
| Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany | 421350‐9970‐000 | ×20, 0.4 NA, 7.9 mm WD, 8.25 mm EFL, coverslip correction for 0.75 mm (camera) | |
| Camera | Hamamatsu Photonics, Shizuoka, Japan | OrcaFlash4.0 v2.0 | sCMOS sensor, 2048 × 2048, pixel size: 6.5 μm, 16‐bit images |
| Lightcrafter | Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, USA | DLPLCR4500EVM | 912 × 1140 diamond pixel 0.45 inch WXGA DMD, RGB LED light engine, two configurable I/O triggers, video display up to WXGA resolution (1280 × 800) |
| LED driver board | Texas Instruments | LM3433SQ‐ 4AEV/NOPB | 9–14 V, 20 A |
| DAQ boards | National Instruments | NI USB‐6212 | AI: 400 kS s−1 multichannel; 16‐bit resolution; AO: 250 kS s−1, 16‐bit resolution; 24 digital I/O lines; two counters, 32‐bit; 80 MHz max counter frequency |
| NI USB 6002 | AI: 50 kS s−1 multichannel; 16‐bit resolution; AO: 5 kS s−1, 16‐bit resolution; 13 digital I/O lines; one counter, 32‐bit; 5 MHz max counter frequency | ||
| Workstation | Dell | Precision Tower 5810 | 32 GB RAM, Intel Xeon processor E5‐1630 v3 at 3.70 GHz, OS Windows 7 Professional 64‐bit |
| Graphics card | Nvidia, USA | Quadro K620 | 2 GB DDR3 GPU memory, 128‐bit memory interface, 29 GB s−1 memory bandwidth, PCI Express 2.0 × 16 interface, DVI‐D DL + DP 1.2 display connectors |
| El. stimulator | Digitimer, UK | DS2A‐Mk II | 99 V output, low noise battery power supply, int. (20 μs to 2 s) or ext. TTL control of pulse duration |
| ECG ampliier | A‐M Systems Inc., USA | 3000 AC/DC differential amplifier | Noise: 1.8 μV, p‐p (10 Hz to 10 kHz); 0.1 fA Hz−1 at 1 kHz; input impedance: 1015 Ohms/1 pF; initial bias current: ±1.0 fA |
| Power supplies | MeanWell, Taiwan | T‐60B | For lightcrafter, 12 V output voltage, 5 A output current, 60 W output power |
| RS components, UK | RS‐150‐12 | For external LED driver board; 12 V output voltage, 12.5 A output current, 150 W output power | |
| Mechanical stages | Thorlabs | MLJ150‐M | motorized z‐stage |
| MT‐FN1 | manual xy‐stage |
DMD, digital micro‐mirror device; DVI, digital visual interface; EFL, effective focal length; FWHM, full width at half‐maximum; GPU, graphics processing unit; I/O, input/output; LED, light emitting diode; NA, numerical aperture; PCI, peripheral component interconnect; RAM, random access memory; RGB, red green blue; SCMOS, scientific complementary metal‐oxide semiconductor; TTL, transistor transistor logic; WD, working distance.