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Bio&Life Sciences
Credit: imec
Illustration of the wavefront shaping principle. When no wavefront shaping is applied, the illumination beam starts to diffusely spread. By optimizing the incoming wavefront, wavefront shaping compensates for scattering and brings the light back into focus.
Shaping light to see deeper inside biological tissue
Integrated wavefront shaping extends the reach of optical imaging to give scientists a deeper and more precise look into biological tissue.
Oct. 29, 2026
FIGURE 1. Transmitted power at the target as a function of depth in tissue for a 780-nm CW diode laser (250 mW), measured in vivo through human skin and muscle for four treated-zone diameters (Ø 40, 20, 10, and 2 mm), illustrating the near-exponential attenuation of laser energy with penetration depth (unpublished data).
780-nm photobiomodulation advances peripheral nerve repair toward a device-ready clinical platform
Oct. 22, 2026
Credit: Guoan Zheng/University of Connecticut
FIGURE 1. The lensless gigapixel video camera. Left: A laser diode in the base illuminates the sample by way of a fold mirror, and the coded sensor (inset) records the diffracted light without any lens. Right: Six moments from a gigapixel video of a melting snowflake. Color is optical phase wrapped over 2π, so each fringe is a contour of equal optical thickness; the shifting background tracks the meltwater film.
Detectors & Imaging
A lensless chip films gigapixel video
Oct. 19, 2026
Credit: Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
Left to right: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel.
Optogenetics nabs 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Oct. 5, 2026
Credit: Kyv Grøn/DTU Electro
Andrea Arduin (left) and Professor Ole Bang, who heads the Fiber Sensors and Supercontinuum Group at DTU Electro, in the lab.
Lasers & Sources
‘Cooked’ fiber doubles range of ultralow-noise supercontinuum lasers
Sept. 30, 2026
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PODCAST: Meet Eric Diebold, Waters Biosciences
Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast
Sept. 29, 2026
Optical components
WUXI AORUITUO ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
Sept. 28, 2026
Credit: PureFize Technologies AB
Simplified representation of early PureFize Far-UVC prototype emission, showing deep-UV output below 240 nm. The chart is intended to illustrate the demonstrated wavelength region, not final product performance. Prototype data. Further development, system optimization, performance validation, and safety validation are ongoing.
Lasers & Sources
Field-emission cathodoluminescent far-UVC source below 240 nm?
Sept. 15, 2026
Credit: X. Jiang et al., Commun. Mater. (2026); CC-BY 4.0
A 20 Euro bill photographed via conventional camera on left, and with its security feature revealed via NIR device on the right.
Detectors & Imaging
Tiny ‘upconverter’ turns invisible near-infrared patterns into visible green light
Sept. 3, 2026
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