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BioPhotonics: October 2012

BioPhotonics
 October 2012


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Fiber Optics Revolutionizes Neuroscience An occasionally overlooked technology leads to major advances in the field Fiber optics might just be the Rodney Dangerfield of the photonics world: Despite being a workhorse technology that has...
Optical Microscopy Quantifies Live Cells Without Labels With increasing frequency, noninvasive, label-free microscopy methods are capturing subcellular details in live cells and tissues at ever-smaller resolutions. Understanding the complex behavior...
Flexibility Improves Photoacoustic Microscopy Switching from optical resolution to acoustic resolution allows scientists to extract more information from samples. Optical imaging offers the prospect of visualizing anatomical structures and...
Tell-Tale Color Changes: Camera Can Find Age of a Bruise Changes in bruise color allow doctors to draw conclusions about when an injury occurred. To determine physical abuse of a child, several warning signs must be considered: Is the child scared?...
EDITORIAL
Light Brings New Tools to Old Science Neuroscience has a very long history, one that by some measures stretches back to thousands of years B.C. Certainly, the need to understand how our brains work, why things sometimes go wrong and, ultimately, how we can fix what is broken makes it a compelling subject. Some 32,000 neuroscientists are expected to gather this month in New Orleans for the 42nd annual meeting of the Society for...
BIOSCAN
DNA-based nanoantenna captures, emits light A bio-inspired light nanoantenna comprising two gold nanoparticles, short DNA strands and a tiny fluorescent molecule that can capture and emit light could pave the way to the development of highly efficient LEDs and ultracompact solar cells and could even find use in quantum cryptography. Light is a wave, so it should be possible to develop optical antennas that can amplify light signals in the...
Metamaterial focuses sound waves like a camera lens A computationally tested metamaterial that can manipulate a variety of acoustic waves with one simple device holds promise for various acoustic applications, including medical ultrasound, higher...
Optical microscope breaks Abbe’s limit Combining electronic excitation and optical detection has allowed an optical microscope to break Abbe’s diffraction limit. The new nanoscale imaging method could lead to enhanced biosensors by...
Cancer-fighting laser born at university space institute A new technique harnesses the power of femtosecond lasers to seek, acutely map and noninvasively destroy cancerous tumors, and it could especially benefit brain cancer patients. Developed by...
New approach strengthens negative refraction An “extraordinarily strong” negative refractive index as large as -700 – more than 100 times larger than most previously reported – has been achieved in metamaterials using a...
Diagnosis is in the eyes, thanks to color-coded markers New fluorescent probes that change color when they encounter brain disease markers found in the eye could offer a simpler way to identify neurodegenerative disease and distinguish between closely...
Glowing molecules turn on, off to visualize cell activity Using UV light to switch fluorescent molecules on and off in aqueous environments could help scientists develop better fluorescent probes for biomedical research. The molecules first must be...
RAPIDSCAN
Guidelines needed to advance diagnostic accuracy Tiny mechanical microscopes – those that can see inside single living cells – increasingly are being used to diagnose illness in hard-to-reach areas of the body, but specialists say that improved, standardized guidelines are needed to advance diagnostic accuracy. The little probes often are threaded into the narrow bile duct that connects the liver to the small intestine to...
Block Engineering LLC Quantum cascade laser (QCL) manufacturer Block Engineering LLC of Marlborough, Mass., has added SKAE Associates of Lexington and Pembroke Instruments of San Francisco to its family of sales...
Hamilton Thorne Ltd. The modular objective assembly in Hamilton Thorne Ltd.’s Lykos and Xyrcos lasers will be granted a patent, according to a notice of intention that the Beverly, Mass.-based company received from...
FEI Co. Imaging and analysis systems company FEI Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., has purchased Visualization Sciences Group (VSG) of Bordeaux, France, for ????????44.8 million (about $55 million). The acquisition is...
Halma plc Dr. Eric Chandler has joined Halma plc subsidiary Ocean Thin Films as an electro-optical scientist focused on multispectral imaging and sensing applications. He will provide technical support to OEM...
Pacific Biosciences Pacific Biosciences of California Inc. of Menlo Park, and imec, a nanoelectronics research center in Louvain, Belgium, have announced a multiyear research collaboration focused on the development of...
CVI Laser CVI Laser of Albuquerque, N.M., is marking its 40th anniversary of providing thin-film-enabled optical components and subsystems to the semiconductor, life sciences, industrial, aerospace and...
Iridex Medical device industry veteran William M. Moore will serve as interim president and CEO of laser-based medical systems maker Iridex of Mountain View, Calif. He replaces Dominik Beck, whose...
WiTec GmbH Rapid growth in Europe and Asia has spurred nanoanalytical microscopy systems maker WiTec GmbH of Ulm, Germany, to open regional offices in Spain and Japan. Head of the Japan office, which is in...
Jenoptik’s Lasers & Material Processing Div. Jenoptik’s Lasers & Material Processing Div. has appointed Stephen Hypsh as vice president of its North American lasers business unit. He has more than 15 years of experience in the laser...
Samsung Venture Investment Group Samsung Venture Investment Group, the investment arm of Samsung Group, and other companies have invested $20 million in ultrafast laser solutions company Raydiance Inc.’s latest growth...
ProPhotonix Ltd. To leverage emerging opportunities in North America and Europe, laser diode module and LED systems manufacturer ProPhotonix Ltd. of Salem, N.H., has hired five people to join its global sales team....
InfiniLED InfiniLED, a spinout of Tyndall National Institute of Cork, Ireland, and a portfolio company of London-based ScienceWorks Ventures plc, has announced an access agreement with Tyndall National...
ON Semiconductor Corp. ON Semiconductor Corp. of Phoenix and Donald Colvin, its executive vice president and chief financial officer, have mutually agreed to Colvin’s resignation as an officer of the company. The...
eMagin Corp. eMagin Corp. of Bellevue, Wash., has received a $2.4 million US Navy contract for the research and development of a high-brightness 2000 × 2000-pixel OLED microdisplay. The $1.1 million Phase I...
Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester Institute of Technology in New York has been awarded $1.2 million by the National Science Foundation to develop, fabricate and test a family of detectors grown on silicon wafer substrates...
Volpi AG Volpi AG of Schlieren, Switzerland, has been named a certified solution partner of LED technologies provider Luminus Devices of Billerica, Mass. With its new partner, Luminus wants to support...
Laser Energetics Inc. Michael Volpe has been named a senior adviser for the investor relations program at Laser Energetics Inc. of Mercerville, N.J. He will coordinate with Ray Dirks and Michael Little to expand the...
DigitalOptics Corp. (DOC) Dr. Farzan “Bob” Roohparvar has been replaced as president of DigitalOptics Corp. (DOC) by Chief Operations Officer Logan Saverimuthu. The company announced the departure and interim...
GSI Group Inc.’s Laser Products Div. Matthijs Glastra has been hired as group president of GSI Group Inc.’s Laser Products Div. A longtime Philips executive, he was expected to join GSI in the fourth quarter and to be based at the...
Kentek Corp. Kentek Corp. of Pittsfield, N.H., has acquired fellow laser safety products maker Laser-Professionals Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Kentek also provides laser components and...
POST SCRIPTS
Lidar reveals elephant impact Scientists and conservation managers have long suspected that elephants browsing for food are the main culprits behind toppled trees in the South African savannas – and airborne lidar and 3-D mapping have helped prove this. Widespread tree loss is a concern to wildlife managers because it is known to have a negative effect on the habitat for many other species. To gain a better...
PRODUCTS
Optical Filter Assemblies DSI introduces advanced optical assembly technology that combines individually-coated multispectral filter substrates into an array assembly. The new Multispectral Optical Filter Assemblies range...
Deposition Sciences Inc. (DSI)
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Laser-Line Cleanup Filters Edmund Optics has announced TechSpec OD 6 laser-line cleanup filters for use with common gas and solid-state lasers. They provide the high transmission and deep rejection necessary to isolate narrow...
Edmund Optics Inc.
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Atomic Force Microscope Bruker Corp. has announced the Dimension FastScan Bio atomic force microscope (AFM), which enables high-resolution microscopy research in biological dynamics. Design innovations have resulted in a...
Bruker AXS Inc.
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Ultra-Absorbing Black Coating Acktar Advanced Coatings has announced completion of preparations for industrial-scale production of foils coated with its Metal Velvet ultra-absorbing black coating for use from the extreme-UV...
Acktar Ltd.
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Surface-Mount Photodiode Opto Diode Corp. has announced the second in its series of surface-mount photodiodes. With high sensitivity and short switching time, the low-capacitance ODD-900-002 is suitable for use in a variety...
Opto Diode Corporation
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Autofocus Lenses Varioptic SA, a business unit of Parrot SA, has announced a series of imaging products based on its electrowetting technology. Dedicated to imaging systems integrators, Caspian is a family of...
Corning Varioptic Lenses
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Spectral Contamination Identifier Software Los Gatos Research has formally documented and independently validated a software analysis package that enables the company’s water isotope analyzers to simultaneously measure multiple isotopic...
Los Gatos Research Inc. (LGR)
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Miniature Microscope Module IVO Associates’ KeepLoop miniature microscope module turns an ordinary mobile phone (or iPad, laptop) into a good-quality microscope by attaching a thin magnetic microscope module in front of...
IVO Associates
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LED Fiber Optic Illuminator Dolan-Jenner Industries has announced the availability of its Fiber-Lite model LMI-6000 LED fiber optic illuminator, which is designed to support a variety of microscopy, medical research and general...
Dolan-Jenner Industries Inc.
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671-nm Laser Laser Quantum UK has launched the tau 671-nm laser with a compact mono-block design that makes it suitable for OEM integration. It outputs up to 50 mW with a stable TEM00 diffraction-limited...
Laser Quantum Ltd.
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SEM Upgrade Since its introduction in 2008, JEOL USA Inc.’s NeoScope benchtop scanning electron microscope (SEM) has been used for inspection of electronic parts, forensics analysis, pharmaceutical...
JEOL USA Inc.
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1-Megapixel Camera Vision Research extends its Phantom 1-megapixel v-Series digital high-speed cameras with the addition of the v411. It uses the same technology as other cameras in the series and delivers 4...
Vision Research Inc., Phantom Digital High-Speed Cameras
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Scientific-Grade Spectrometer Ocean Optics’ QE65 Pro scientific-grade modular spectrometer features high sensitivity and low stray light for fluorescence, Raman and DNA sequencing spectroscopy. Its new optical bench...
Ocean Insight
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LED Microscope System Leica Microsystems has launched the DM4000 B LED, a microscope system with innovative LED illumination suited for biomedical routine and research applications. The LED transmitted light...
Leica Microsystems GmbH
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TCSPC Module Aurea Technology is launching the SPD_AT, its new near-infrared time-correlated single-photon-counting (TCSPC) module. The ultralow-noise and high-quantum-efficiency 900- to 1700-nm device...
Aurea Technology
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Laser Remote Coherent Inc. has expanded its OBIS family of plug-and-play smart laser modules and accessories with the OBIS 6-Laser Remote. The new accessory integrates the power supply and control of up to six...
Coherent Inc.
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