Deep-UV LEDs preserve strawberries

One unexpected application of photonics that caught my eye this year at CLEO was the use of deep-ultraviolet LEDs to lengthen the storage lifetime of strawberries.

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Pharmaceutical manufacturing embraces unique machine vision solutions

Manufacturers of pharmaceutical products are depending on a variety of image-capture techniques, sophisticated optics, smart networking, and laser-based inspection tools for their machine vision systems.

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Optimized photon-counting detector with no dark counts

To conduct an important quantum-mechanics experiment, an international team of researchers had to create an extremely efficient photon-counting detector.

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1 × 4 InP SOI optical switch replaces passive splitters

Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology and Ghent University have developed the first bias-free and optically controlled 1 × 4 switch.

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Deep-UV LEDs preserve strawberries

CLEO can be a great place to come upon unexpected applications of photonics. One that caught my eye this year was the use of deep-ultraviolet LEDs to lengthen the storage lifetime of strawberries, an important concern when rhubarb-strawberry pie is a household favorite.

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