December 2012 Features
Choosing the Right Microscopy System
For any job, there is the right tool. But understanding how to evaluate your equipment and recognize...
Live-Cell Imaging Uses All the Best Acronyms
Researchers are working to improve FRET, TIRF, FLIM, FRAP and other microscopy methods to get the mo...
Fourier Domain OCT Guides QCL Thermal Therapy
Researchers share their demonstrations of real-time monitoring of 6.1-µm quantum cascade laser...
The Silk (Optics) Road
An eco-friendly material that once united Europe and Asia in transcontinental trade shows promise fo...
RapidScan
Pioneering photonics institute to celebrate 30 years
A pioneering center for photonic science and technology marked a big milestone this autumn. The ...
OCT, adaptive optics net €1M vision science award
Pioneers in optical coherence tomography and adaptive optics for retina visualization received the 2...
Ocean Optics Inc.
Richard Pollard is the new president of Ocean Optics Inc. of Dunedin, Fla. He replaces Kevin Chittim...
Avantes BV
Robert Hukshorn is the new director of sales and marketing at Avantes BV of Apeldoorn, Netherlands. ...
Edmund Optics
Barrington, N.J.-based Edmund Optics will consolidate its Pennsburg, Pa., facility into its corporat...
Folio Photonics
A university startup, Folio Photonics aims to make optical films that can hold 1 to 2 TB. As a cheap...
Laser Quantum UK
Laser technology provider Laser Quantum UK of Stockport has acquired Gigaoptics GmbH, a maker of Ti:...
Navitar
Precision optics and imaging system components maker Navitar of Rochester, N.Y., has filled position...
Newport Corp.
Newport Corp. of Irvine, Calif., has extended its line of vibration-isolation equipment by acquiring...
Semrock Inc.
Based in Rochester, N.Y., Semrock Inc., a unit of Idex Corp.’s Optics & Photonics platform...
Allied Vision Technologies (AVT)
Allied Vision Technologies (AVT), based in Stadtroda, Germany, has opened a new sales office in Shan...
Germanow-Simon Corp.
Rochester, N.Y.-based Germanow-Simon Corp., the parent company of G-S Plastic Optics, has completed ...
BioScan
Femtosecond laser-powered nanotweezers benefit cell studies
Low-power plasmonic tweezers can trap, manipulate and analyze nanoparticles – including fragil...
Moving cells tracked simultaneously in 3-D
Tracking moving cells under a microscope just got easier, thanks to a novel lensless computational i...
OCT images blood vessels beneath skin that feed cancer
A noninvasive optical coherence tomography method that maps the network of tiny blood vessels in the...
Light tube grabs, scans tiniest bacterium
A light tube that can grab, orient and record the movements of tiny, agile unicellular organisms may...
SMART scalpel gives surgeons superhuman precision
A new “smart” surgical tool uses a specialized optical fiber sensor to compensate for al...
NIR mammography finds, monitors breast cancer
A novel noninvasive optical imaging technique could offer doctors new ways to identify breast cancer...
Spectroscopic “fingerprints” differentiate brain tumors
A breakthrough in brain tumor diagnosis uses infrared and Raman spectroscopy to differentiate health...
Laser “needle” could take the ouch out of shots
Children (and even adults) who dread facing needles at the doctor’s office can find hope in a ...
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