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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.

2011 Prism Awards announced at SPIE Photonics West

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.

Daylight Solutions enters strategic relationship with IRphotonics

01/25/2012

San Diego, CA--Daylight Solutions entered into a strategic business relationship with IRphotonics to advance infrared optical fiber technology.

Photonics West: reducing noise in mid-IR imaging by a billion times

01/24/2012

San Francisco, CA--In session 8240-15 at Photonics West 2012, scientists from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU; Lyngby, Denmark) today presented their new approach to mid-IR imaging.

Resonant laser cooling brings gallium arsenide down to 31 K

Resonant laser cooling brings gallium arsenide down to 4 K

01/23/2012

Copenhagen, Denmark--Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have developed what they call a new method for laser-cooling of semiconductor membranes.

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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Photonics West: SPIE's awesome conference smartphone app

..John Wallace..Senior Editor..Laser Focus World..johnw@pennwell.comSo I'm here at SPIE's Photonics West 2012 in San Francisco (and will be here until next Thursday), and I'm as overwhelmed as... Read More

Residential solar PV: a happy customer

Gail OvertonSenior EditorLaser Focus Worldgailo@pennwell.comThere is nothing quite like opening your electric bill for the third month in a row and owing $0 (that’s a zero) dollars. This is th... Read More

Watching real wavefronts in slow motion

..John Wallace..Senior Editor..Laser Focus World..johnw@pennwell.comA team at the MIT Media Lab, led by Ramash Raskar, has developed the best way yet to visualize the passage of light as it hi... Read More

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