September 2012 Features
Multimodal Label-Free Imaging Drives Biomedical Research
Label-free noninvasive, nondestructive optical microscopy using multiple simultaneous techniques all...
The Age of the Tricorder
The medical device of the future is already here. The Star Trek television series and movies hav...
New Glass Fibers Widen Range of Medical Lighting Applications
Optical fibers with higher light transmission and longer life spans offer interesting new solutions ...
Light Source Helps Endoscopes Get Smaller and Smaller
Xenon light sources represent the benchmark for medical illumination,but they cannot couple light th...
RapidScan
Ophthalmic laser market growing
As the population of the world ages, associated eye problems will mean significant growth for the op...
ON Semiconductor Corp.
ON Semiconductor Corp. of Phoenix and Donald Colvin, its executive vice president and chief financia...
EOS
Laser-sintering systems manufacturer EOS of Krailling, Germany, filed a patent lawsuit March 5 again...
The Optical Society (OSA)
To honor professor Michael S. Feld’s fundamental contributions in the fields of laser science ...
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments of Columbia, Md., has opened the Shimadzu Center for Advanced Analyt...
DigitalOptics Corp.
DigitalOptics Corp. of San Jose, Calif., a subsidiary of Tessera Technologies Inc., and MMD Monitors...
Genia Photonics
Genia Photonics of Laval, Quebec, Canada, has received $300,000 in financial assistance from the Can...
Edinburgh Instruments, Laser Quantum & Fianium
Three photonics companies have received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, the UK’s most ...
Raptor Photonics Ltd.
Raptor Photonics Ltd. of Larne, Northern Ireland, has named Laser 2000 GmbH of Munich as its scienti...
Given Imaging Ltd.
Given Imaging Ltd.’s patent infringement lawsuit against Intromedic Co. Ltd. of Seoul, South K...
Olympus America Inc.
Olympus America Inc. of Center Valley, Pa., and 16323%%Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH of Jena, Germany, ...
Imaging Diagnostic Systems Inc.
To increase its presence in the Middle East, Imaging Diagnostic Systems Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla...
SpectraScience Inc.
Medical device company SpectraScience Inc. of San Diego has signed an exclusive five-year agreement ...
Iridex Corp.
Laser-based medical systems provider Iridex Corp. of Mountain View, Calif., has announced the succes...
LensAR Inc.
LensAR Inc. of Orlando, Fla., has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for its next-generation Len...
Crystal Laser Systems GmbH
Roger H. Brüggemann has been hired as head of marketing and sales at diode-pumped solid-state l...
Idex Corp.
Idex Corp. of Lake Forest, Ill., has acquired Matcon Group Ltd. of Evesham, UK, a supplier of materi...
BioScan
Scalpel-free surgery with deep-tissue imaging
A new procedure that more than doubles the depth that light can be focused inside biological tissues...
Moth eyes inspire improved x-ray imaging
A new class of nanoscale materials modeled after a moth’s eye could improve the light-capturin...
Metamolecules switch handedness under light
A new technique that uses light to change the “handedness” of artificial molecules could...
Optical microscope detects rare cancer cells
A new optical microscope easily detects rare cells in real time and could help doctors diagnose dise...
Photonic crystals help fish see in the murk
The elephantnose fish has light-reflecting cups lined with photonic crystals in its retinas that hel...
Loops of light optically detect single molecules
A new nanoscale light-manipulation method that optically detects single molecules could be used in a...
Antennas capture, upconvert weak IR light
A new technique that uses special molecules as light antennas to harvest the energy from weak infrar...
Nanohole-based sensors ideal for medical diagnostics
Novel molecular sensors based on thin metallic films with nanoholes hold promise for applications th...
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