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Microscopy method peers into cell structures of living fish
05/17/2012
Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, and the American National Institutes of Health have developed a new microscopy method to visualize cell structures measuring...
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Focal Point, Piezosystem Jena partner to deliver autofocus systems for bioimaging
05/15/2012
Focal Point and Piezosystem Jena, autofocus systems and nanopositioning solutions makers, respectively, have entered into a new partnership to deliver autofocus systems for biological imaging applications. |
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Reducing substitutional carbon in AlN LED substrates boosts deep-UV LED efficiency
05/15/2012
Raleigh, NC--Researchers from North Carolina and Japan have developed a more-efficient UV LED potentially useful in sterilization of bacteria and viruses. |
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Integrated food-testing spectrometer is smaller than a sugar cube
05/13/2012
Dresden, Germany--A spectrometer only 2.1 cc in volume created by a group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) is intended for testing food items for ripeness, water content, and other qualities. The res...
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Princeton Instruments spectrograph has Schmidt corrector, eliminating field astigmatism
05/09/2012
Trenton, NJ--Princeton Instruments has introduced a new toroidal-mirror-based imaging spectrograph that includes a Schmidt corrector in its optics, completely eliminating astigmatism across the field. |
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Photoacoustics screen for breast cancer without X-rays
05/08/2012
Twente, The Netherlands--Researchers from Netherlands' University of Twente and Medisch Spectrum Twente Hospital in Oldenzaal are now using photoacoustics rather than ionizing radiation to detect and visualize breast tumors.
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PHOTOACOUSTICS: In vivo photoacoustic scanner images tumor vasculature and therapy response
05/02/2012
Researchers at University College London (UCL) have developed a new photoacoustic scanner based on a Fabry-Perot polymer film ultrasound sensor with a unique image reconstruction algorithm that can noninvasively image tumors at...
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CLEO/Laser Focus World 2012 Innovation Awards
05/01/2012
The 2012 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards program is designed to honor the most timely, groundbreaking products in the field of photonics and laser science. The awards are sponsored by Laser Focus World and the Conferen...
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Adaptive optics, computer software pair to correct aberrations in optical imaging
04/30/2012
University of Illinois researchers have developed a technique to computationally correct for aberrations, enabling higher-quality images and 3D datasets in real-time imaging applications such as image-guided surgery. |
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Femtosecond laser ablation sheds new insight on cell division
04/27/2012
Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), using a femtosecond laser, sliced through and made quantitative measurements of the mitotic spindle (an apparatus that forms during cell division), d...
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Compressed sensing allows super-resolution single-molecule microscopy imaging of live cell structures
04/26/2012
Atlanta, GA--Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have pushed the limits of super-resolution microscopy, using single-molecule identification at higher speed...
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CLEO show to move to June in 2013
04/26/2012
Washington, DC--Next year's Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), held annually in San Jose, CA, will take place in June rather than its usual May, moving to June 9–14, 2013. |
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200-kHz Swept Light Source for OCT Imaging
NTT-AT introduces new swept light source for OCT imaging.
- High-speed: 200-kHz A-line rate
- Voltage-controlled sweeping formats: k-linear scan available
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Scalable High-Power and High-Brightness Fiber Coupled Diode Laser Devices - Photonics West 2012
In this paper we present a detailed characterization of different diode laser sources based on the scalable modular concept. The optical output power is scal...
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Design and Test of Fast Laser Driver Circuits
In industrial laser systems and measurement applications, the designers are challenged with the very demanding task to design and verify fast driver circuits...
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The laser -- its past, present, and future
Invented a half-century ago, the laser was first thought of as "a solution without a problem." However, the effectiveness of coherent light as a to...
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OCT: noninvasive imaging for many purposes
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) takes advantage of the properties of coherent light to create 2D or 3D noninvasive images of turbid or otherwise semitrans...
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