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Protecting Food Resources through FTIR Spectroscopy
People have complicated relationships with food. Some eat too much, others too little. Many have no idea what they are eating; others are hyperaware and strive for the best dining experience possible. None of us wants to be misled about what we are consuming, especially if we are paying a premium price, have allergies to certain food types, or have a cultural or religious reason to proscribe...
Time-Lapse Microscopy Captures Cells in the Act
Viewing biological processes as they happen provides a fascinating insight into cell behavior and can unveil vital clues about developmental milestones that have been puzzling scientists for some...
Tissue Imaging with Raman Spectroscopy and SERS
Recent years have seen an increase in the use of gold nanorods (GNRs) as contrast agents for in vivo optical imaging, with applications including near-infrared transmission imaging and photoacoustic...
With lasers, surgery on the cutting edge
There’s more to laser surgery than meets the eye – meaning that there’s more to surgical lasers than vision correction. For instance, lasers are used to treat throat cancer, to...
High-Power Diode Lasers for Laser Surgery
Laser-based surgery is staking an increasingly important claim in operating theaters across the world. More specifically, a class of devices called high-power diode lasers (HPDLs) provides numerous...
Editorial
Building collaboration in synchrotron’s glow
Growing up in the shadow of Fermilab, home to what was for many years the world’s highest-energy synchrotron, we followed every groundbreaking and history-making event at “the lab” from the moment when its future in Batavia, Ill., was announced. We let words and phrases such as “accelerator” and “Tevatron” and “quark,” “atom...
BioScan
For coral, red means go
The color that young staghorn coral fluoresce – red or green – seems to predict whether they will swim away from their reef of origin, or stay and settle, biologists have discovered. ...
Intelligent microscopy steers biology experiments
Sitting at a microscope for hours while painstakingly searching for the right cell may soon become a methodology of the past, thanks to software developed by researchers at the European Molecular...
Light therapy finds a voice
Early-stage laryngeal cancer typically is treated with radiation therapy alone or in combination with surgery or chemotherapy. However, a new study at the Henry Ford Hospital has found that...
Fluorescent peptides highlight nerves
Locating hard-to-see nerves during surgery may now be possible with injectable fluorescent peptides that preferentially bind to peripheral neurons, causing them to glow. Nerve preservation,...
Tiny camera outsees the human eye
A camera resembling the human eye but with a superhuman zoom function is now a reality, and it is only the size of a nickel. The curvilinear “eyeball” camera, developed by...
Smart lasers for painless cancer biopsies
Rather than cutting slivers of skin to send to a lab for testing, a development in smart lasers could make biopsies painless and noninvasive. Using a laser microscope that deploys rapid, ultrashort...
Imaging biological structures at molecular levels
Imaging individual biological molecules using even the most powerful microscopes has given scientists grief, but with the aid of extremely intensive and ultrashort x-ray pulses from the first...
Finding a new pathway for antidepressants
A new fluorescence labeling technique that can monitor the reversible plasma membrane association of protein domains without the need for scanning, optical splicing or imaging has been identified by...
Determining biomolecule structures with protein nanocrystals
Experiments on laser-excited samples, 3-D image reconstruction and other femtosecond diffractive imaging applications could get a boost from a protein beam projector – a tiny aerojet nozzle...
Seeing single cells clearly
A new investigative tool that allows scientists to observe DNA, proteins and viruses could make significant research inroads to improve drug discovery, further studies of host cell-pathogen...
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Biophotonics is a hot topic at Laser Munich
Laser World of Photonics is all about bringing industry and research together to encourage the growth of both sectors. After all, “for photonics companies, it is essential to be where research and industry converge and where trends are born,” said Dr. Wilhelm G. Kaenders, CEO of Toptica Photonics AG and chairman of the technical advisory board for Laser World of Photonics....
Boston University
To help develop a handheld electron beam-pumped semiconductor laser that would be the first to operate in the ultraviolet, Boston University professor Theodore Moustakas has received a $1.5 million,...
Bruker Corp.
Based in Billerica, Mass., Bruker Corp., a provider of scientific instruments and systems for molecular and materials research, has signed an agreement to acquire Michrom Bioresources Inc. of Auburn,...
Dynasil Corp.
Dynasil Corp. of Watertown, Mass., has announced that during 2010, its subsidiary, Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc., was granted 11 patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office related to medical...
General Electric, Siemens Healthcare USA and Philips Healthcare
An article in the February 2011 issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology provides a road map for imaging manufacturers to navigate the increasingly complex US regulatory and...
JPK Instruments AG
Berlin-based JPK Instruments AG has expanded its operations in Asia with the appointment of two distributors. Privately held Lotis Korea will be its exclusive representative in South Korea. The...
Philipps University
In Germany, researchers at Philipps University in Marburg are testing a new generation of light microscopes made by Wetzlar-based Leica Microsystems GmbH, with a resolution well below the diffraction...
Nikon Instruments Inc.
Movies taken through a microscope will be accepted as a new category in the 37th Annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition sponsored by Nikon Instruments Inc. based in Melville, N.Y....
Opsens Inc.
Opsens Inc., based in Quebec City, has announced that it will defend itself against a lawsuit filed by Acist Medical Systems Inc. of Delaware. Acist is asking for money damages and requesting that...
Qioptiq SAS
Qioptiq Inc. of Fairport, N.Y., will divest its molding unit, Qioptiq Polymer Inc. of La Verne, Calif., to concentrate on its core optical and photonics business. Qioptiq Polymer’s injection...
BaySpec Inc.
BaySpec Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based supplier of UV/VIS/NIR and Raman spectral engines, and Rigaku Corp., a global producer of analytical spectroscopic instrumentation, have signed an exclusive...
Postscripts
The Secret Life of Fleas
If you’ve ever wondered whether fleas jump using primarily their toes or their knees, wonder no more. Gregory P. Sutton and Malcolm Burrows at the University of Cambridge in the UK have solved the mystery. Using a high-speed camera, they filmed 10 leaping fleas, proving that the creatures push off with their toes. Since 1967, there had been a somewhat heated debate among scientists as to...
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DPSS Q-Switched Lasers
Available through RPMC Lasers Inc., Bright Solutions srl’s BLM series diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) Q-switched lasers emit at 532 nm, with factory-adjustable output energy from 10 to 50 μJ, and with 15-ns pulse widths and factory-adjustable repetition rates from single shot to 4 kHz. The instrumennts provide a linear polarization ratio of 100:1 and beam quality with M2 of 1.1. Their...
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Planoconvex Axicons
For medical research and other applications, Edmund Optics Inc. has released its planoconvex axicons. The lenses feature one conical surface and one plano surface and are used to produce a...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Filtering Accessory
NKT Photonics, manufacturer of the SuperK lasers, has launched the SuperK Gauss filtering accessories, rendering the lasers suitable for use in applications in optical coherence tomography and...
NKT Photonics GmbH
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CMOS Camera
Hamamatsu Corp. has introduced the C11440-50B CMOS board-level camera for OEMs. Based on a next-generation scientific CMOS image sensor, the camera combines high resolution, sensitivity and speed...
Hamamatsu Corporation
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Ultrafast Laser
The Chameleon Vision-S ultrafast laser from Coherent Inc. is used for multiphoton imaging and combines 80-fs pulse widths with high average power and a long wavelength tuning range. It delivers...
Coherent Inc.
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Extracorporeal Visualization
Optronics has announced the Vitom HD system, a new paradigm in extracorporeal visualization, imaging and documentation, designed for research and experimental microsurgery and microdissection. The...
Optronics
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Near-IR Spectrometers
Photon Control Inc. has unveiled two near-IR spectrometers, the SPM-001-NIR1700S and SPM-001-NIR2500W. The high-resolution 140-mm-focal-length optical bench instruments feature a thermoelectrically...
Photon Control Inc.
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Green Diode Lasers
Omicron Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH has begun serial production of direct 515-nm laser diodes for use in biotechnology. Compared with conventional argon gas lasers and diode-pumped solid-state lasers...
Omicron-Laserage Laserprodukte GmbH
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Microscopy Software
Vision Engineering Ltd. has introduced two software options for its Mantis Elite-Cam stereomicroscope with instant digital image capture. The microscope comprises a factory-integrated and sealed USB...
Vision Engineering Ltd.
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Line-Scan Camera
For machine vision and other applications, Sensors Unlimited – Goodrich ISR Systems’ compact SU1024LDM line-scan camera features high-resolution 1024-pixel imaging in the short-wavelength...
Sensors Unlimited Inc.
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Terahertz Pulse Generation
Newport Corp. has introduced a terahertz pulse generation kit that uses a sub-35-fs Ti:sapphire amplifier system. The kit can be integrated easily with a Ti:sapphire amplifier to generate terahertz...
MKS/Newport
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Fiber-Coupled Lasers
The high-power 1908-nm fiber-coupled QPC Laser line modules manufactured by Laser Operations LLC offer high efficiency and good spectrum characteristics for pumping of solid-state and fiber lasers in...
QPC Lasers Inc.
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Microspectrophotometer
Craic Technologies Inc. has announced the Flex UV-VIS-NIR microspectrophotometer for spectroscopic analysis of many types of microscopic samples. It acquires images and spectra from the...
CRAIC Technologies
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Microscope System
Olympus Europa Holding GmbH has released the BX63, a microscope system built with a modular, customizable design to meet various experimental requirements. Users can select their preferred...
Olympus Europa SE & Co. KG
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Intravital Imaging
The optical design of Till Photonics GmbH’s Intravital2P microscope, dedicated to intravital imaging, increases light collection efficiency for dual-color two-photon microscopy. The...
FEI Munich GmbH
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