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Photonics has changed the way we look at the world. It influences the way research is done, how we...
Applications: For Every Problem, a Solution
When military leaders want to fight off enemies, where do they turn? When multimedia and auto...
Applications: Keeping an Eye on Lasik
Research into lasik (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) refractive eye surgery indicates that,...
Applications: Change in Biomed Imaging
Advances in high-definition (HD) imaging technology and the development of ultracompact camera...
Applications: Harnessing Light and Sound for Staging of Breast Cancer
Only recently developed for imaging of tissue, photoacoustic tomography now is racing headlong...
Applications: It’s Smaller Than a Penny, and it Could Just Save Your Life
In the ever-evolving world of wireless sensor technology, the demand for smaller, more highly...
Applications: Can Photodynamic Therapy Stop Aging?
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is widely used for the prevention and treatment of nonmelanoma skin...
Applications: Scarless Endoscopy Is Increasingly Popular, Yet Faces Push Back
One of the most promising new endoscopic procedures is called natural orifice transluminal...
Applications: OLED TVs Battle to Become Big
Organic LED (OLED) panels, with their extremely thin screens and independence from the backlights...
Applications: Cell Phone Makers Becoming More Flexible
Advanced touch screens, better and brighter displays, innovative software applications and...
Applications: Balloons Make Unusual, Low-Cost Solar Collectors
Concentrated solar systems are not attracting much new attention these days, but when the...
Applications: Developing a Dream Car
Photonics technology touches many aspects of our lives – from medicine to lighting – but one of the...
Applications: Soldiers Train for Real Combat Through Virtual Simulation
Driving or walking the streets of Afghanistan and Iraq may be nerve-wracking for soldiers who have...
Applications: Blast Strips Record Explosion Exposure
The wound most characteristic of soldiers who have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan is...
Applications: Advanced Tactical Laser Combines Precision and Stealth
The Boeing Co., the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft, received a...
Applications: Forensics in 3-D
"No piece of equipment can replace a smart investigator. The most important aspect of every...
Applications: Autopsies Heading into Virtual Territory
CT scanning a dead body isn’t really all that different from scanning a living person, but there’s...
Applications: Using CT to Identify Bodies
CT imaging can be used not only in traditional medical applications but also to identify human...
Applications: Photoluminescent Inks for Explosives Detection
The development of a fluorescent ink has made it easier to sniff out even tiny amounts of...
Applications: Spectroscopy in Forensics
When it comes to establishing time of death from skeletal remains, diffuse reflectance...
Applications: Reel to Real: Digital vs. Analog in Forensic Video Analysis
There’s one big trend in forensic video analysis that has experts crying foul, and that’s the...
Applications: LEDs Light the Way to Homes and Businesses
LED technology is moving to a new neighborhood. The light source that once was used to light cell...
Applications: White LEDs: A penny for your lumen?
Environmentally conscious consumers can rest easy. Bridgelux Inc., a solid-state lighting company...
Technology: Smarter, Better, Faster, Greener
Technology helps us see, understand and manipulate our world; it helps us communicate from afar;...
Technology: Machine Vision
A few years ago, microprocessors hit a speed limit. Cranking up the clock was no longer feasible,...
Technology: Machine Vision
No man is an island, and no machine vision camera is, either. The connections that tie them into...
Technology: Catching Up with the Hyperlens
It’s the million-dollar question in optical microscopy: how to image biological events occurring in...
Technology: Bump in the Night
On a moonless night when the sky seems at its darkest, a perpetual atmospheric short-wave infrared...
Technology: Making Invisibility Cloaks Real with Metamaterials
Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak could become a reality, thanks to some exotic man-made materials...
Technology: Atomic Force Microscopy Finds Numerous Applications
In the March 3, 1986, publication of Physical Review Letters, Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate and...
Technology: A Billion Points of Light – and More Coming
Quantum dots, more generically known as semiconductor nanoparticles, are hiding in the shadows no...
Technology: Achieving Multiplexed FRET
Förster resonance energy transfer, or FRET, provides a means to study the temporal dynamics of...
Technology: Fiber Lasers Continue to Attract Users
Fiber lasers are gaining in popularity over other types because they offer advantages in beam...
Technology: Sensing in the 21st Century
As we move into the 21st century, environmental monitoring is becoming a common topic of...
Global Markets: Looking for the Silver Lining
Granted, the dark clouds of today’s global economic slowdown cast a shadow on many a photonics...
Global Markets: The 2008 Photonics Salary Survey
The 2008 Photonics Salary Survey bodes well for the industry. Salaries overall have kept pace with...
Global Markets: Japan’s Flare for Solar Technology
At the end of 2008, the Japanese government projected that its economy would have zero growth in...
Global Markets: China - The New Land of Opportunity
The trend started with standard large consumer market products, continued with commodities and now...
Education: The ABCs of Photonics
Education is the basis of any industry, but it is especially essential in science-based fields such...
Education: Science Museums
Science centers are hoping to bring about a better future for society by encouraging dialogue on...
Education: Desperately Seeking Photonics Technicians
Armed with an associate degree in laser and fiber optics technology, a new graduate of Three Rivers...
Education: Thanks to an Optical Sensor, a Fourth R: Robotics
Although still No. 1, the Lamesa Middle School Whirlwinds could be facing some competition. And...
Education: Robots Set Students’ Sights on Engineering
There’s no question in Rachel Moore’s mind what played a role in her deciding on an electrical...
Education: Expanding Photonics Education
Photonics-based careers have become much more rewarding and diverse, according to Thomas M. Baer,...
Education: Technology Made Easy
Within the photonics industry, designers are working to simplify instruments for greater ease of...
Education: Photonics Clusters - Providing a ‘Common Voice’
Photonics clusters, centers for optics/photonics and optoelectronics, are growing worldwide,...
Education: Painting the Campus Green
What is sustainability? According to the Environmental Protection Agency, sustainability means...
Education: The Amazing Solar Village
For 10 days next October, the National Mall in Washington will be dotted with solar-powered homes...
Education: Solar Trees Provide Shade, Power at UCSD
Students on campuses across the globe are studying climate change and taking action to reduce their...
Education: Taking Green to the Streets
While colleges and universities around the world teach various aspects of sustainable technologies,...