Photonics.com: Web Exclusives http://www.photonics.com/Splash.aspx?TID=41 This is the syndication feed for photonics.com. Bringing a Laser to Life Earlier this summer, Harvard University researchers reported the first successful biological laser based on a single living cell. Malte C. Gather and http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=48463 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT Tiny Optics Continue to Roll Forward Individually, micro-optics are a few millimeters in diameter at best, but together these tiny lenses comprise a powerful link to future technologies t http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=47708 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT Plasmonics May Hold Key to All-Optical Chips A rapidly growing branch of physics promises all-optical computer chips and ultrafast computing speeds. An artistic impression of light interact http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=47394 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT 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 achieve http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=47194 Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT Coming Soon: Disposable Endoscopes A microcamera for endoscopy applications developed by a German collaboration promises to be so inexpensive as to be disposable. Endoscopy has gone http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=46907 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT 3-D TV: Here To Stay? With industry analysts predicting between 15 million and 21 million 3-D-ready televisions in US homes by the end of next year, it looks as if 3-D TV i http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=46698 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT Quantum Dots: Applications for Artificial Atoms Expanding Quantum dots, also known as semiconductor artificial atoms, have existed for several years now, and their use keeps on expanding. Primarily used as su http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=46082 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT The Tech of Tomorrow, But Not Really I always assumed that, by the second decade of the 21st century, I would have a jet pack, a robot valet and a flying car that folded into a suitcase I http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=45880 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT 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 v http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=45826 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT Managing Mushrooming Medical Imaging Metadata Imaging is a core activity for researchers in the service of basic biomedical science, for technicians in hospital labs, and for a host of doctors, nu http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=45658 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT Photonics at Play: Mere Toys Won’t Do There's a second line to the famous phrase about work, play, and a boring boy named Jack. Supposedly, all play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. But http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=45319 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT Nanoparticles and the Environment By David L. Carroll1 and Claudia K. Gunsch2 1Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials and Department of Physics Wake Forest University http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=44805 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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 http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=44487 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT Photonics Turned Upside Down Those maps where south is up aren't that far off, at least as far as some photonics technologies and suppliers are concerned. Take the case of Finisar http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=44445 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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 Unive http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=44298 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Using Reverse Engineering to Discover Patent Infringement Patent licensing has become big business in recent decades. The high technology sector, in particular, places a high value on patents and licenses. Se http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=44063 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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 o http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=43891 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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 http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=43391 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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 th http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=43149 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT 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 th http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=42747 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT