January 2013 Features
Polarization-Sensitive OCT Monitors Tooth Decay
Nondestructive polarization-sensitive OCT is likely to become a useful addition to the dentist&rsquo...
Dental Laser Market Shows No Signs of Decay
Lasers offer dentists distinct advantages in diagnosis and surgery, and laser companies expect the m...
CARS Is Finding Its Niche
Overcoming challenges on the path to commercialization No matter how useful a technology might pr...
The Most Popular Stories of 2012
Biophotonics experienced and enabled a huge number of fascinating advances in 2012, and we at Photon...
Prism Award Finalists Offer Solutions to Big Problems
Finalists include tools for brain imaging, cancer diagnosis and more Powerful new lasers for biol...
RapidScan
Program offers free advice to photonics firms
Aston University is again offering free support and guidance to businesses focusing on one of the fa...
ASML Holding NV
Semiconductor lithography systems provider ASML Holding NV of Veldhoven, the Netherlands, will acqui...
Coherent Inc.
Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., has acquired Innolight Innovative Laser and Systemtechnik GmbH...
IBC Advanced Alloys Corp.
IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and Inrad Optics Inc. of Northvale...
Labsphere Inc.
Two longtime employees at test and measurement company Labsphere Inc., a Halma company of Sutton, N....
Advanced Photonix Inc.
Advanced Photonix Inc. (API) of Ann Arbor, Mich., has separated its CEO and board chairman positions...
DirectPhotonics Industries GmbH
Berlin-based DirectPhotonics Industries GmbH, a provider of ultrahigh-brightness direct-diode lasers...
Flir Systems Inc.
Sensor systems manufacturer Flir Systems Inc. will produce domestic response capability (DRC) kits u...
IPG Photonics Corp.
Fiber laser maker IPG Photonics Corp. of Oxford, Mass., reported another double-digit profit and rev...
European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility
Anne Matsuura, former chief executive of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF) in Be...
Ocean Thin Films
Accredited academic institutions and private industry researchers who are breaking ground with Ocean...
Oclaro Inc.
Optoelectronic components maker Oclaro Inc. is selling its Santa Rosa, Calif.-based thin-film filter...
Thorlabs
Thorlabs of Newton, N.J., has acquired mid-infrared laser supplier Maxion Technologies Inc. from Phy...
Horiba Europe
Horiba Europe has opened a research and technology center at Saclay Technopole in France, which will...
BioScan
Creating order from disorder
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DNA origami nanolenses visualize single modules
Self-assembling nanolenses that use DNA as a construction material represent a better way of visuali...
Sensor reads single photons ultrafast
In imaging, every single photon counts, and now, thanks to an ultrasensitive sensor, those individua...
Peering “under the hood” of a live cell
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Fishy felon breaks a law of physics
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3-D stress map reveals embryonic heart defects
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Laser-based testing helps detect metastasis
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Photoswitch affects nerve cells in eye, brain
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Polymer lens almost identical to human eye lens
A multilayered polymer gradient refractive index (GRIN) lens inspired by the human eye could one day...
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