http://www.photonics.com/Splash.aspx?TID=36 This is the syndication feed for photonics.com. Microscopic probes that light up synapses in living neurons could give scientists insight into how these structures change when new memories are forme http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54190 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT A state-insensitive optical trap could prove promising for the development of quantum networking, researchers in Georgia have found. Using clouds http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54183 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT A chemical nanoengineering breakthrough favoring the development of light-regulated therapeutic molecules could lead to personalized medicine that lim http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54182 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT Listening to a conference call can leave you on the edge of your seat craning to hear what the person on the other end of the call is trying to say. B http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54177 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT Blood vessels within a sensory area of a mouse’s brain loop and connect in unexpected ways, a new 3-D map has revealed. The findings could help http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54171 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT A fast, versatile and high-resolution technique that combines the best of optical and scanning electron microscopy could provide surface and subsurfac http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54170 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT Experimental physicist Dr. Immanuel Bloch has received the 2013 Körber European Science Prize, presented by the Körber Foundation for his gr http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54161 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT “Nanovolcanoes” carved out of a synthetic polymer with UV light can store and release precise amounts of materials, a feat suitable for dr http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54160 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT A technique for increasing the time that quantum information is stored in glass fiber-coupled atoms could yield a global optical fiber-based quantum c http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54153 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT A new material with five times the light sensitivity of current silicon-based sensor technology could yield cameras sensitive enough to capture photos http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54148 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT Adapting high-power thin-disk laser technology could significantly expand applications for photon thrust in spacecraft propulsion, enabling improved m http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54134 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT A single short-pulse laser-driven neutron source could make searching for nuclear materials smuggled in shipping containers much easier, an internatio http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54129 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT An optical “antenna-in-a-box” capable of detecting and sensing individual molecules at high concentrations could provide a better understa http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54128 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT Whispering galleries — circular spaces beneath a dome that capture and amplify sound as quiet as a whisper — have inspired numerous scient http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54121 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT Robert Alfano, distinguished professor of science and engineering at The City College of New York, has been awarded the 2013 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54102 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT Smartphone-based cancer detection, a telecom-based time cloak and UV-LEDs that slow food rot are just a few of the cutting-edge applications of optics http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54092 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT A new metamaterial design that aims to replace bulky optical devices could improve IR thermal cameras, energy harvesting, and security screening and r http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54091 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT An image processing technique that allows small Segway-like robotic vehicles to create 3-D thermal images of burning buildings in real time could help http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54080 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT Pulsed light technology provider Xenon Corp. has announced that three laboratories have joined its Printed Electronics Test Center Network, bringing t http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54079 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT An alternative “temporal cloaking” method that uses standard optical communications components has improved the time available for secure http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54044 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT