ASI, 89 North, Berliner Glas, Goodrich ISR, and Insight light up the Photonics West show floor (VIDEO)
02/21/2012
San Francisco, CA--Laser Focus World attempted to capture the essence of some of the best showings on both the BiOS and Photonics West 2012 exhibit floors. |
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Photosynthetic molecule plus semiconductor make efficient biophotovoltaics
02/04/2012
Knoxville, TN--Barry Bruce and colleagues at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have created photovoltaic cells containing a nanosctructured semiconductor on which a photosynthetic pigment/protein (photosystem-I, or PS-I) h...
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Photonics21 Annual Meeting to emphasize growth and public-private partnership
02/03/2012
Brussels, Belgium--The annual meeting of Photonics21, scheduled for March 27-28 at the Hotel Husa President Park in Brussels, will focus on the way forward toward the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 and the founding of a Ph...
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PURAVIS fibers improve white-light transmission, chemical stability for medical & industrial applications
02/02/2012
Elmsford, NY--SCHOTT launched PURAVIS high-purity glass optical fibers that offer improved white-light transmission, lower color shift, higher chemical stability, and lead-free manufacturing. |
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Aligned carbon nanotubes form robust, efficient terahertz polarizer
01/31/2012
Houston, TX--Researchers at Rice University -- a place from which much carbon-nanotube research originates these days -- have created an extremely efficient and robust terahertz-radiation polarizer from carbon nanotubes.
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Three things to like about Photonics West 2012
01/31/2012
San Francisco, CA--You will find extensive coverage of Photonics West 2012 in the form of articles, blogs, and videos appearing on our website in the coming days. The event attracted more than 20,000 attendees, while the expo i...
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Imec reveals chip-based hyperspectral imager, biosensor partnership, and spinoff funding
01/31/2012
Leuven, Belgium--Imec has been busy; it has developed a compact hyperspectral imager, partnered with Genalyte on silicon biosensors, and its spinoff Pepric has been funded. |
Wet AMD therapy study using fiber-optic light device yields positive results
01/30/2012
At the Retina Meeting 2012 held recently, Reid Schindler, MD, presented positive Phase I data from a human study assessing a new, minimally invasive device to treat wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), which causes v...
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Plasmonic interferometer measures glucose in saliva, not blood
01/27/2012
Providence, RI--A new technique from researchers at Brown University can measure blood sugar levels by measuring glucose concentrations in saliva rather than blood. |
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2011 Prism Awards winners run the photonics gamut
01/26/2012
San Francisco, CA--Winners of the 2011 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation were announced at a gala banquet on January 25 during SPIE Photonics West. |
Dermatology at Photonics West, from skin-cancer detection to tattoo tomography
01/22/2012
San Francisco, CA--Of the many topics at the BiOS technical conference at SPIE's Photonics West 2012, I chose today to sit in on a few sessions in Conference 8207A, "Photonics in Dermatology and Plastic Surgery."
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Adaptive optics make their way to becoming more affordable
01/20/2012
Boston Micromachines Corporation (BMC), a provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics systems, has reduced the price of its Mini-DM and Multi-DM systems, which boost resolution in microscopes and ...
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Mid-IR Laser Technology
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High-power diode laser pumps for alkali lasers (DPALs)
We present performance data of recent high-power laser diodes emitting at typical pump wavelengths for alkali vapor lasers: 852 nm for cesium, 780 nm for rub...
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Filters for Laser Based Microscopes
Due to many desirable properties such as high brightness, stability, longevity, and
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Multimodal Nonlinear Optical Imaging
Nonlinear optical (NLO) imaging is a powerful microscopy technique that has found increasing use in the field of biomedical optics. Ultrafast laser excitatio...
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Fundamentals of Raman spectroscopy
Raman spectroscopy is a nondestructive and highly versatile technique for analysis of chemicals, both organic and inorganic. It is used in industry, bioscien...
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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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