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Cornell researchers invent alternate approach to Lytro’s “light-field” camera technology
Ithaca, NY--A camera taking digital images that can be focused at any time after they’re taken has been invented by researchers...
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Rainbow polymer grating could lead to handheld multispectral imaging devices
Buffalo, NY--A new polymer grating from UB is rainbow-colored when viewed, and could be used as a filter for handheld multispec...
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Quantum-dot VCSELs can emit anywhere in the visible spectrum
Providence, RI and Watertown, MA--Researchers at Brown University and QD Vision are engineering a better form of colloidal quan...
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Laser-based 3D nozzle quality test from Fraunhofer ILT improves laser material deposition
Aachen, Germany--Fraunhofer ILT scientists have performed a laser-based qualitative/quantitative characterization of the powder...
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Quantum dot based chemical sensors are safer, smaller, more sensitive
05/16/2012
Giessen, Germany--European Union funded researchers have developed an optical chemical sensor that is safer, easier to install and much more sensitive than most existing chemical sensors. |
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Photoacoustic imaging benefits from integrated laser-OPO system
05/16/2012
Santa Clara, CA--AlphaScan is a compact integrated optical parametric oscillator (OPO) and pump laser that outputs high energies in the near-infrared (NIR) for photoacoustic imaging. |
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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Canadian government awards funds to Genia Photonics and Photon etc.
05/15/2012
Montreal, Canada--Two photonics firms in Quebec, Genia Photonics and Photon etc., have has been awarded financial assistance. Genia will receive $300,000 in repayable funding and Photon etc. will get $500,000 in repayable fundi...
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Gold- and silver-free metamaterial shows negative refraction in the near-IR
05/14/2012
West Lafayette, IN--To create an alternative to the use of silver and gold in metamaterials, researchers at Purdue University, the Russian Quantum Center (Moscow, Russia), and DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark (Lyngb...
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