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A rapidly growing branch of physics promises all-optical computer chips and ultrafast computing speeds. Plasmonics, also called “light on a wire,” exploits the...
Multimodal Imaging: Combining Techniques to Give Microscopists a Boost
On the way to conjoining two well-established but disparate imaging modalities, a FLIM (fluorescence lifetime imaging) and CARS microscope was achieved along with the developm...
Coming Soon: Disposable Endoscopes
A new manufacturing process is now yielding a camera the size of a kosher grain of salt that can fit at the end of an endoscope and obtain images from inside the human body in...
3-D TV: Here To Stay?
Analysts predict there will be between 15 million and 21 million 3-D-ready TVs in US homes by the end of next year, but will they really be used to watch 3-D content? In this ...
Quantum Dots: Applications for Artificial Atoms Expanding
The use of quantum dots is nearly ubiquitous in Förster’s resonance energy transfer (FRET), but scientists are just beginning to scratch the surface on other application...
The Tech of Tomorrow, But Not Really
I always assumed that, by the second decade of the 21st century, I would have a jetpack, a robot valet and a flying car that folded into a suitcase I could take to my desk at ...
Improving Micro-Raman/AFM Imaging Using Negative-Stiffness Vibration Isolation
Negative-stiffness vibration isolators can easily support the heavy weight of a combined AFM/micro-Raman system, and isolate it from low frequency vibrations more effectively ...
Managing Mushrooming Medical Imaging Metadata
Imaging is used for every imaginable biomedical purpose, from cell and gene studies to disease detection and diagnosis. As the metadata from imaging modalities continues to mu...
Photonics at Play: Mere Toys Won’t Do
When it comes to photonics at play, mere toys won’t do. Instead it takes advanced infrared light sources and motion-tracking sensors, along with complicated software, fo...
Nanoparticles and the Environment
Nanoparticles released into the environment can have a wide range of biological effects. These effects can depend not only on the specific chemical makeup of the nanoparticles...
A Guide to Selecting Lamps
As the green evolution continues, light emitting diodes (LEDs) are replacing traditional light sources in many applications. However for applications requiring wavelength rang...
Photonics Turned Upside Down
There are suppliers in the southern hemisphere of leading photonics-based technologies, as well as cases of innovative research. This Web Exclusive by Hank Hogan cites example...
Dark Current in Consumer Cameras: Not What you Expect
By Ralf Widenhorn, professor; Justin C. Dunlap, graduate student; and Erik Bodegom, professor and chair, Department of Physics, Portland State University Since the advent ...
Using Reverse Engineering to Discover Patent Infringement
Fundamental to building and executing any successful patent licensing program is the ability to find and prove evidence of infringement, often through reverse engineering meth...
The Quantum Leap: Researchers Explore the Clinical Potential of Quantum Dots
Researchers have made tremendous progress in recent years in developing optical imaging for the study and management of disease. By taking advantage of the near-infrared windo...
Extravagant Fiction Today...Cold Fact Tomorrow
In the oppressive heat of a summer’s day in A.D. 2331, the tinkerer shuffled deliberately across the foyer of the long-abandoned museum he called home. The late-afternoo...
From Boston to Bay Area, Biotech Centers are Booming
For regenerative medicine leader Organogenesis Inc., there’s no place like home. For one thing, being based in the Boston area has made it easy for the MIT spinoff to ac...
Life Without Lasers?
If you were offered $1000 to go an entire day without interacting with lasers, do you think you could do it? What if you also couldn’t use anything that had been built w...
Creating Art with Light
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Could It Be Lights Out for the Traditional Bulb?
After 120 years of faithful service, the incandescent bulb is bowing out in favor of more energy-efficient lighting. All over the world, governments are introducing new rules ...


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The Perfect Solution for Photoluminescence Studies of Lanthanide-Doped Semiconducting Nanocrystals
The Perfect Solution for Photoluminescence Studies of Lanthanide-Doped Semiconducting Nanocrystals
Photoluminescence (PL) studies of lanthanide-doped semiconducting nanocrystals have become very common in materials science. The increased research...
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The Measurement of High Optical Densities (up to 8 Abs) in the Near-Infrared
The Measurement of High Optical Densities (up to 8 Abs) in the Near-Infrared
The optical densities of various materials used in the manufacture of laser safety eyewear have been determined in the NIR. The lens materials were...
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Hollow Silica Waveguides for Mid-Infrared Power Transmission and Spectroscopy
Hollow Silica Waveguides for Mid-Infrared Power Transmission and Spectroscopy
Applications in the Mid-Infrared often require a flexible conduit for transmitting light from source to destination. Hollow Silica Waveguides with...
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