Kathy Kincade

Contributing Editor

Kathy Kincade is the founding editor of BioOptics World and a veteran reporter on optical technologies for biomedicine. She also served as the editor-in-chief of DrBicuspid.com, a web portal for dental professionals.

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Lasers & Sources

Annual Laser Market Review & Forecast: Lasers enabling lasers

Kathy Kincade

Jan. 18, 2018

Consumer electronics are driving growth to new heights for laser manufacturers and laser materials processing equipment providers and, in turn, enabling markets that need yet ...

FIGURE 1. A photoacoustic image of melanin expressed under the tyrosinase reporter in a subcutaneous tumor.

Test & Measurement

Optoacoustic Imaging/Photoacoustics: The wide-ranging benefit of photoacoustic commercialization

Kathy Kincade

Feb. 17, 2016

Advances in lasers are facilitating the commercial emergence of highly tunable, noninvasive tools that promise great benefit for a broad range of applications—and ultimately, ...

FIGURE 1. While synthetic-aperture-radar data can be easily and inexpensively obtained from orbiting Earth satellites, the resolution can be limited. By overlapping the data with more specific lidar data from areas within the same region, the inherent distortions found in SAR images can be adjusted for, as shown in this integrated SAR and lidar image of Denver, CO.

Detectors & Imaging

Optoelectronic Applications: Image Fusion - Satellite sensors zero in on resource and disaster planning

Kathy Kincade

Aug. 1, 2008

Advances in high-resolution image processing are helping governments better manage urban sprawl and fallout from natural and man-made disasters.