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BioPhotonics - October 2012
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Fiber Optics Revolutionizes Neuroscience
An occasionally overlooked technology leads to major advances in the field Fiber optics might just be the Rodney Dangerfield of the photonics world: Despite being a workhorse technology that has...
Optical Microscopy Quantifies Live Cells Without Labels
With increasing frequency, noninvasive, label-free microscopy methods are capturing subcellular details in live cells and tissues at ever-smaller resolutions. Understanding the complex behavior...
Flexibility Improves Photoacoustic Microscopy
Switching from optical resolution to acoustic resolution allows scientists to extract more information from samples. Optical imaging offers the prospect of visualizing anatomical structures and...
Tell-Tale Color Changes: Camera Can Find Age of a Bruise
Changes in bruise color allow doctors to draw conclusions about when an injury occurred. To determine physical abuse of a child, several warning signs must be considered: Is the child scared?...
Editorial
Light Brings New Tools to Old Science
Neuroscience has a very long history, one that by some measures stretches back to thousands of years B.C. Certainly, the need to understand how our brains work, why things sometimes go wrong and, ultimately, how we can fix what is broken makes it a compelling subject. Some 32,000 neuroscientists are expected to gather this month in New Orleans for the 42nd annual meeting of the Society for...
BioScan
DNA-based nanoantenna captures, emits light
A bio-inspired light nanoantenna comprising two gold nanoparticles, short DNA strands and a tiny fluorescent molecule that can capture and emit light could pave the way to the development of highly efficient LEDs and ultracompact solar cells and could even find use in quantum cryptography. Light is a wave, so it should be possible to develop optical antennas that can amplify light signals in the...
Metamaterial focuses sound waves like a camera lens
A computationally tested metamaterial that can manipulate a variety of acoustic waves with one simple device holds promise for various acoustic applications, including medical ultrasound, higher...
Optical microscope breaks Abbe’s limit
Combining electronic excitation and optical detection has allowed an optical microscope to break Abbe’s diffraction limit. The new nanoscale imaging method could lead to enhanced biosensors by...
Cancer-fighting laser born at university space institute
A new technique harnesses the power of femtosecond lasers to seek, acutely map and noninvasively destroy cancerous tumors, and it could especially benefit brain cancer patients. Developed by...
New approach strengthens negative refraction
An “extraordinarily strong” negative refractive index as large as -700 – more than 100 times larger than most previously reported – has been achieved in metamaterials using a...
Diagnosis is in the eyes, thanks to color-coded markers
New fluorescent probes that change color when they encounter brain disease markers found in the eye could offer a simpler way to identify neurodegenerative disease and distinguish between closely...
Glowing molecules turn on, off to visualize cell activity
Using UV light to switch fluorescent molecules on and off in aqueous environments could help scientists develop better fluorescent probes for biomedical research. The molecules first must be...
RapidScan
Guidelines needed to advance diagnostic accuracy
Tiny mechanical microscopes – those that can see inside single living cells – increasingly are being used to diagnose illness in hard-to-reach areas of the body, but specialists say that improved, standardized guidelines are needed to advance diagnostic accuracy. The little probes often are threaded into the narrow bile duct that connects the liver to the small intestine to...
Block Engineering LLC
Quantum cascade laser (QCL) manufacturer Block Engineering LLC of Marlborough, Mass., has added SKAE Associates of Lexington and Pembroke Instruments of San Francisco to its family of sales...
Hamilton Thorne Ltd.
The modular objective assembly in Hamilton Thorne Ltd.’s Lykos and Xyrcos lasers will be granted a patent, according to a notice of intention that the Beverly, Mass.-based company received from...
FEI Co.
Imaging and analysis systems company FEI Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., has purchased Visualization Sciences Group (VSG) of Bordeaux, France, for ????????44.8 million (about $55 million). The acquisition is...
Halma plc
Dr. Eric Chandler has joined Halma plc subsidiary Ocean Thin Films as an electro-optical scientist focused on multispectral imaging and sensing applications. He will provide technical support to OEM...
Pacific Biosciences
Pacific Biosciences of California Inc. of Menlo Park, and imec, a nanoelectronics research center in Louvain, Belgium, have announced a multiyear research collaboration focused on the development of...
CVI Laser
CVI Laser of Albuquerque, N.M., is marking its 40th anniversary of providing thin-film-enabled optical components and subsystems to the semiconductor, life sciences, industrial, aerospace and...
Iridex
Medical device industry veteran William M. Moore will serve as interim president and CEO of laser-based medical systems maker Iridex of Mountain View, Calif. He replaces Dominik Beck, whose...
WiTec GmbH
Rapid growth in Europe and Asia has spurred nanoanalytical microscopy systems maker WiTec GmbH of Ulm, Germany, to open regional offices in Spain and Japan. Head of the Japan office, which is in...
Jenoptik’s Lasers & Material Processing Div.
Jenoptik’s Lasers & Material Processing Div. has appointed Stephen Hypsh as vice president of its North American lasers business unit. He has more than 15 years of experience in the laser...
Samsung Venture Investment Group
Samsung Venture Investment Group, the investment arm of Samsung Group, and other companies have invested $20 million in ultrafast laser solutions company Raydiance Inc.’s latest growth...
ProPhotonix Ltd.
To leverage emerging opportunities in North America and Europe, laser diode module and LED systems manufacturer ProPhotonix Ltd. of Salem, N.H., has hired five people to join its global sales team....
InfiniLED
InfiniLED, a spinout of Tyndall National Institute of Cork, Ireland, and a portfolio company of London-based ScienceWorks Ventures plc, has announced an access agreement with Tyndall National...
ON Semiconductor Corp.
ON Semiconductor Corp. of Phoenix and Donald Colvin, its executive vice president and chief financial officer, have mutually agreed to Colvin’s resignation as an officer of the company. The...
eMagin Corp.
eMagin Corp. of Bellevue, Wash., has received a $2.4 million US Navy contract for the research and development of a high-brightness 2000 × 2000-pixel OLED microdisplay. The $1.1 million Phase I...
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology in New York has been awarded $1.2 million by the National Science Foundation to develop, fabricate and test a family of detectors grown on silicon wafer substrates...
Volpi AG
Volpi AG of Schlieren, Switzerland, has been named a certified solution partner of LED technologies provider Luminus Devices of Billerica, Mass. With its new partner, Luminus wants to support...
Laser Energetics Inc.
Michael Volpe has been named a senior adviser for the investor relations program at Laser Energetics Inc. of Mercerville, N.J. He will coordinate with Ray Dirks and Michael Little to expand the...
DigitalOptics Corp. (DOC)
Dr. Farzan “Bob” Roohparvar has been replaced as president of DigitalOptics Corp. (DOC) by Chief Operations Officer Logan Saverimuthu. The company announced the departure and interim...
GSI Group Inc.’s Laser Products Div.
Matthijs Glastra has been hired as group president of GSI Group Inc.’s Laser Products Div. A longtime Philips executive, he was expected to join GSI in the fourth quarter and to be based at the...
Kentek Corp.
Kentek Corp. of Pittsfield, N.H., has acquired fellow laser safety products maker Laser-Professionals Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Kentek also provides laser components and...
Postscripts
Lidar reveals elephant impact
Scientists and conservation managers have long suspected that elephants browsing for food are the main culprits behind toppled trees in the South African savannas – and airborne lidar and 3-D mapping have helped prove this. Widespread tree loss is a concern to wildlife managers because it is known to have a negative effect on the habitat for many other species. To gain a better...
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Edmund Optics has announced TechSpec OD 6 laser-line cleanup filters for use with common gas and solid-state lasers. They provide the high transmission and deep rejection necessary to isolate narrow...
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