DANIEL MCCARTHY, SENIOR EDITOR [email protected]Anyone remember the year 1986? The average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. was 89 cents. Lionel Richie topped the year-end Billboard charts with his song, “Say You, Say Me.” You could buy a Tandy 600 portable computer — with a CPU clocking in at 3.07 MHz and 32 kB of RAM coming standard — for only $1500. And the 1986 Nobel Prize in physics was divided between the developers of the electron microscope and the scanning tunneling microscope. Another defining event from 1986 was the launch of our seminal Photonics Spectrum Reference Chart. For over three...Read full articleRelated content from Photonics MediaARTICLES‘Back to business’ is the new normal … againDecember is a shadowy month. It occupies that brief span on the calendar when the lingering reminiscences of the current year compete with the looming ambitions of the next. A year ago, such...Photonics Spectra December 2022 IssueAn unprecedented view of the origins of diseasePhotoacoustic microscopy is allowing researchers and clinicians an unprecedented view — based on the technique’s ability to reveal information about the circulation of cells throughout...BioPhotonics Mar/Apr 2023 IssueStuttgart reduxBy the time you read this, many of you will be making your way to VISION, the world’s largest machine vision trade fair, in Stuttgart, Germany. This year marks a bit of an anomaly —...Vision Spectra Autumn 2022 IssueIt’s the thought that countsIt is poor form to compare the largesse of the recent gift-giving season against that of past holidays. Hopefully, the rules are more forgiving when comparing scientific discoveries. As rumors...Photonics Spectra January 2023 IssueWEBINARSKEYNOTE: FLIM in Surgical OncologyMarcu reviews the development of clinically compatible fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) technology and applications in surgical oncology. Emphasis is placed on the integration of FLIM in surgical...Photonics.com 10/26/2022Infrared Spectroscopy and Imaging Probes the Nano Realm via Photothermal DetectionFourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometry has been a powerful capability for scientific research and industrial problem-solving for over 50 years now. There are, however, some limitations that...Photonics.com 1/21/2021Data Analytics and Decision Theory at the Center of Advanced Sensing SolutionsHighly multiplexed and multivariate sensing platforms have proliferated in recent years, and data streams along with them. While optical and electronic platforms continue to advance, it is...Photonics.com 4/12/2022Organic Small-Molecule Integrated PhotonicsThe initial, landmark integrated photonic devices relied on silicon and III-V materials, and recent advancements in material fabrication and deposition methods have enabled a plethora of new...Photonics.com 1/20/2021