San Francisco, CA--On January 23rd, in conjunction with SPIE Photonics West, the W Hotel will host the Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar to navigate what lies ahead.  

Researchers from Harvard Medical School have engineered the first ratiometric, single-protein red fluorescent pH sensor.

Researchers at the Technischen Universität Darmstadt have demonstrated a state of light that is at the same time incoherent in the first order (spectrally broadband) and yet coherent in the second order.

Researchers from the University of Missouri have developed a device that measures melanoma at the cellular level using photoacoustics, or laser-induced ultrasound.

Jena, Germany--A glass ceramic with a nanocrystalline structure developed at the Otto-Schott-Institute for Glass Chemistry has both the high strength and the proper optical characteristics for use in dentistry.

Singapore--A research team at the National University of Singapore (NUS) is developing a low-cost cell-phone application that can be used to identify individuals through iris recognition.

The low noise of a 577 nm CW optically pumped semiconductor laser enables researchers to image cellular structures and membrane dynamics with unprecedented resolution using blue/green fluorophores.

Bellingham, WA--In efforts to boost its education outreach mission, SPIE will be supporting optics- and photonics-related education outreach projects through a grants program.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology and international colleagues have developed a new microscopy method to observe single nerve cells in intact tissue and in 3-D.

Researchers at the University of Twente’s MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology adopted a "reverse" approach to spectroscopy, which cleans up images by eliminating background noise.

Researchers at UC San Diego have created a living biosensor comprised of millions of bacterial cells that periodically fluoresce in unison like blinking light bulbs.

San Francisco, CA--To be held in conjunction with Photonics West on Monday, January 23rd, the early bird discount has been extended to December 30th for the Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar.

Changchun, China--Scientists at Jilin University have created adjustable microlenses made from protein gels, using femtosecond laser direct writing to create the lenses from bovine serum albumin.