Mr. Eric Heinz Profile

Eric Heinz

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Fluorometer engineering , Spectrometer engineering , Illumination , Radiometry

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Eric Heinz retired from optical engineering in late 2014 after 37 years of designing optical instruments, principally spectrometers and filter fluorometers.. After January 2003 he consulted as Heinz Optical Engineering, LLC. As a consultant he helped many biotech companies develop DNA analyzers, fluorescence imagers, and related instrumentation. He also helped several companies develop illumination systems.

Publications (4)

Proceedings Article | 23 February 2009 Paper

Tolerancing fluorometers for in-vitro diagnostics

Eric Heinz

Proceedings Volume 7170, 71700O (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.810845

KEYWORDS: Fluorometers, Tolerancing, Sensors, Lamps, Polarization, Optical filters, Luminescence, In vitro testing, Diagnostics, Reliability

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Proceedings Article | 23 February 2009 Paper

Calibrating fluorometers for clinical diagnostics

Eric Heinz

Proceedings Volume 7170, 71700G (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.810851

KEYWORDS: Fluorometers, Calibration, Anisotropy, Diagnostics, Optical instrument design, Standards development, Luminescence, Sensors, Refraction, Lamps

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Proceedings Article | 6 February 2007 Paper

Design for manufacturablility (DFM) in the life sciences: fluorescence spectroscopy product platform realized with TracePro suite of opto-mechanical design software tools

Linda Smith, Eric Heinz, Richard Hassler, Edward Freniere

Proceedings Volume 6430, 64301U (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.701002

KEYWORDS: Luminescence, SolidWorks, Sensors, Design for manufacturing, Tolerancing, Fluorescence spectroscopy, Biological research, Optical filters, Life sciences, Optics manufacturing

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Proceedings Article | 18 August 1995 Paper

Multiphoton errors in the calibration of photon-counting detectors with radioactive scintillators

Eric Heinz

Proceedings Volume 2622, (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.216876

KEYWORDS: Scintillators, Photon counting, Calibration, Photodetectors, Data modeling, Single photon, Sensors, Electrons, Photomultipliers, Systems modeling

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