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This Week in Photonics: High-Resolution Live Cell Imaging the “Smart” Way (1/5/2017)

This Week in Photonics: High-Resolution Live Cell Imaging the “Smart” Way
Researchers from Uppsala University gave their old standard inverted microscopes an upgrade using a few 3D-printed parts, off-the-shelf electronics and a smartphone.
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Thursday, January 5, 2017
       
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Smartphones Used for Live Cell Imaging
Smartphones Used for Live Cell Imaging
Laboratories around the world can now make movies of living cells with their smartphones. Researchers from Uppsala University gave their old standard inverted microscopes an upgrade using a few 3D-printed parts, off-the-shelf electronics and a smartphone. The upgraded systems provided excellent culture conditions and gave the researchers high-resolution, less expensive images of living cells.
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Optical Fiber Probe Detects Breast Cancer
Optical Fiber Probe Detects Breast Cancer
Using an optical fiber probe, researchers have developed a more precise technique to distinguish breast cancer tissue from normal tissue. This novel device will potentially give surgeons the upper hand when removing breast cancer and prevent follow-up surgeries, which are currently needed for 15 to 20 percent of breast cancer surgery patients where all the cancer is not removed.
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Hyperspectral Imaging System Could Advance Flight- and Space-Based Remote Sensing
Hyperspectral Imaging System Could Advance Flight- and Space-Based Remote Sensing
Advances in spectroscopy imaging will be applied to the development of a hyperspectral/ultraspectral imaging system that will be used for remote sensing. The imaging system incorporates a novel camera system that uses a compressive sensing technology. The camera, which has been significantly miniaturized, requires only one-tenth of the data traditionally needed to quickly produce high-resolution images.
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Optical Circulator Could Be Used to Route Quantum Data in Integrated Optical Circuits
Optical Circulator Could Be Used to Route Quantum Data in Integrated Optical Circuits
An advance in optical signal processing uses a fiber-integrated quantum optical circulator, operated by a single atom, to control the direction of light. The nonreciprocal behavior of the circulator arises from a chiral interaction between the atom and the transversally confined light. The circulator’s nonlinear response at the single-photon level enables photon number-dependent routing. Dubbed a “nano-roundabout,” the circulator could be used in integrated optical chips, and would be an advance for nanotechnology where the ability to process light pulses consisting of individual photons could be useful.
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Tunneling Could Be Key to Modulating Bandwidth of Transistor Laser
Tunneling Could Be Key to Modulating Bandwidth of Transistor Laser
Two recent studies could impact the fundamental modulation bandwidth of the transistor laser and increase its capacity for data transfer in optical and 5G wireless communications. Electrical engineers Nick Holonyak, Jr. and Milton Feng at the University of Illinois invented the transistor laser in 2004, based on their discovery that a transistor could be modulated to be a signal and a device that could harness the physics between electrons and light. The engineers are now exploring how optical absorption can be enhanced, using an approach they have called the Feng-Holonyak Intra-Cavity Photon-Assisted Tunneling (FH-ICPAT).
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