Highlights

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Bio&Life Sciences

Enhance early detection of melanoma with liquid lenses

Aug. 8, 2024
How can liquid lenses help with early detection of this potentially life-threatening condition to save lives?
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Lasers & Sources

Ultrafast fiber laser offers 1000–1100 nm spectral bandwidth

Aug. 1, 2024
The VALO Tidal ultrafast fiber laser delivers pulse durations of 40 fs (typical) with 2 W output power.
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Detectors & Imaging

A golden opportunity to boost x-ray imaging and scanning

July 22, 2024
In a breakthrough study, researchers used gold to improve the sharpness of x-ray images and potentially augment processing speeds for x-ray scans.
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Detectors & Imaging

FLIM camera system provides 1008 × 1008 pixel resolution

July 4, 2024
The pco.flim X frequency domain fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) camera system can measure fluorescence lifetimes from 1 ns to 100 µs.
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Detectors & Imaging

Portable digital microscope features 13 Mpixel camera sensor

June 30, 2024
The MiScope MP4K USB 3.0 handheld digital microscope has 10–360x magnification.
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Executive Forum

LED illumination systems continue transition into science and industry

May 8, 2024
In this Q&A, CoolLED managing director Jake Davies chats with EPIC’s technology manager for biomedical and lasers.
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Bio&Life Sciences

PRM-SRS microscopy platform distinguishes specific lipid types

May 7, 2024
A Raman microscopy-based imaging approach could crack the long-elusive code of lipids, their subtypes, and the key roles they play in human health, aging, and disease.
(Courtesy of Albrecht Stroh, University Medical Center Mainz and Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research)
Bio&Life Sciences

Three-photon microscopy comes of age

May 3, 2024
How does three-photon microscopy stack up against two-photon microscopy?
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Bio&Life Sciences

In memoriam: Joseph Izatt, OCT imaging pioneer

April 10, 2024
Izatt, whose work in optical coherence tomography (OCT) led to improvements in medical diagnostics, passed away April 7, 2024.