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3D Sensing Bolsters Robotic Guidance Sep 21, 2018 — With prices falling and performance rising, 3D vision, or depth sensing, is showing up in new applications, including allowing robots to map places and tasks, such as figuring out how best to avoid people. Other uses include pick-and-place, combined assembly and inspection, and moving shelves of items from one location to another. These and other applications depend upon inexpensive and powerful 3D vision, and there are several competing technologies. All have strengths and weaknesses, with
Industrial Photonics, Oct 2018
Smartphone Spectroscopy Takes the Lab to the People Sep 17, 2018 — By 2020, the number of smartphone users in the world is expected to reach almost 2.9 billion — nearly doubling in six years from about 1.6 billion in 2014. Technology companies and researchers have been directly and indirectly imbuing...
BioPhotonics, Oct 2018
SHG Microscopy Brings Live Cells into 3D Focus Sep 10, 2018 — Second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy brings the imaging of select biomolecular assemblies into 3D focus. It highlights biomolecules that follow specific structural organization within biological tissues, and complements two-photon excited...
BioPhotonics, Oct 2018
Application-Specific Machine Vision Simplifies Aircraft Maintenance Aug 22, 2018 — Machine vision systems, however automated, do not exist in isolation. They must augment and intelligently interact with human operators. Workflows can benefit from 3D optical vision systems. In particular, vision systems technology shows significant...
EuroPhotonics, Sep 2018
Photothermal IR Spectroscopy Boosts Chemical Microscopy, Expands Applications Aug 15, 2018 — Current bioanalysis largely relies on tissue homogenization and separation, followed by various assays. Without spatial and temporal dynamics information, the way in which molecules execute their functions in a living system remains unknown....
BioPhotonics, Sep 2018
High-Precision Laser Therapy Transforms Dentistry Aug 13, 2018 — Since the late 19th century, the mechanical drill has served as the cornerstone of dentistry. However, as dentists’ responsibilities continue to expand — and after decades of academic research resulting in the advancement of...
BioPhotonics, Sep 2018
OCT Promising as Clear Point-of-Care Solution Aug 13, 2018 — Medical devices at the point of care allow clinicians to do what they do best: determine a patient’s exact condition and a course of treatment. These technologies work best when they fit seamlessly into the provider-patient workflow without a...
BioPhotonics, Sep 2018
Advanced Imaging Techniques Enhance Fluorescence Sensing Aug 9, 2018 — Detecting fluorescence light via imaging and fluorescence sensing can take researchers and clinicians into the body, allowing them to visualize samples and biological progression of areas such as cancer detection or cardiovascular function. The...
BioPhotonics, Sep 2018
Lensless Cameras May Offer Detailed Imaging of Neural Circuitry Jul 19, 2018 — Understanding brain function at the scale of individual neurons could open the door for advanced understanding of animal and human behavior and the mechanisms of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s. But the size scale of neurons and...
BioPhotonics, Aug 2018
Thermal Camera-Equipped UAVs Spot Hard-to-Find Subjects May 15, 2018 — The enormous growth in the drone, or small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), industry over the past five years has changed the way many industries operate, and the trend is not slowing down. Business Insider Intelligence predicts year-over-year growth...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2018
Continuously Variable Bandpass Filters Aid Optics and HSI May 14, 2018 — Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has been in use for a couple of decades in applications such as satellite imaging and air reconnaissance. Despite its widespread use, there is a lack of clarity of what “hyperspectral” encompasses. Sometimes techniques...
Photonics Spectra, Jun 2018
Hyperspectral Imaging Fights Food Waste May 10, 2018 — Despite being the world’s most globalized industry, agriculture is extremely inefficient. Global supply chains have been mechanized but not information-enabled, and they have not yet fully benefited from the explosion of digital technologies that...
Industrial Photonics, Jul 2018
Terahertz 3D Spectroscopy Boosts Imaging Applications Apr 19, 2018 — Terahertz imaging is a promising technique for noncontact, noninvasive, nonionizing 3D spectroscopy. Terahertz rays, located between microwave and IR on the electromagnetic spectrum from approximately 0.06 THz (60 GHz) to 10 THz, are capable of...
EuroPhotonics, Jun 2018
Augmented Reality Takes Shape Apr 19, 2018 — The world of virtual reality (VR) has made a splash in the consumer market in recent years with its fully occluded VR headsets, such as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, that transport gamers to a virtual world. But an even bigger trend with more...
EuroPhotonics, Jun 2018
Hyperspectral Machine Vision Enables Smart Automation Mar 20, 2018 — Conventional vision systems often fail to sort items that have similar colors or appearances. In these cases, hyperspectral data combined with spatial pattern recognition algorithms can detect a wide range of materials, patterns, coatings, defects...
Industrial Photonics, Apr 2018
Vying for Dominance: Swept-Source vs. Spectral-Domain OCT Mar 12, 2018 — Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is among the most widely used in vivo optical diagnostic techniques. This high-resolution 3D imaging modality, with market size approaching $1 billion, has established itself as an indispensable tool for...
BioPhotonics, Apr 2018
Sensor Balancing Act for UAVs Jan 25, 2018 — Commercial applications such as crop disease detection, environmental monitoring, geological exploration and infrastructure inspection are prime examples of how the confluence of drones and sensing instruments is evolving globally. On-demand data...
Photonics Spectra, Mar 2018
Continuously Variable Bandpass Filters Aid Optics and HSI Jan 24, 2018 — Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has been used for a couple of decades in applications such as satellite imaging, air reconnaissance and other markets that are not price sensitive. Still, there is no clear definition of the term. Sometimes techniques...
EuroPhotonics, Mar 2018
Imaging UAVs Move to the Forefront of Surveillance and Reconnaissance Jan 22, 2018 — With the U.S. and the U.K. deploying more troops overseas, and given the global increase in the frequency and lethality of terrorist attacks, it’s little surprise that versatile unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing a bigger role than...
EuroPhotonics, Mar 2018
Prism Awards Honor Industry’s Top Innovators Jan 16, 2018 — What do the world’s smallest FTIR spectrometer and a smartphone add-on sensor for noncontact bioimaging have in common? The 2018 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation. These products are among 30 finalists for the awards that recognize the...
BioPhotonics, Jan 2018
SPIE BiOS Highlights Biomedical Optics Jan 3, 2018 — SPIE BiOS has been hailed “the most important biomedical optics conference you can attend in 2018.” The world’s largest biophotonics, biomedical optics and imaging conference, it offers the latest research on topics such as...
BioPhotonics, Jan 2018
Thermal Imaging Spurs New Applications Dec 13, 2017 — Long-wave infrared (LWIR) imaging, also known as thermal imaging, has played a critical role in the defense and security market for decades because of its ability to detect warm (or live) objects independent of ambient lighting. Recently, advances...
Industrial Photonics, Jan 2018
Image-Based Barcode Reading Fulfills its Promise Dec 12, 2017 — Traditionally, 1D barcodes have been read by laser scanners that project a beam across the barcode and use reflected light to generate an electrical signal for decoding. Although these scanners are mature and effective, a number of inherent...
Industrial Photonics, Jan 2018
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Terahertz Imaging Takes Aim at Dermatology and Dentistry Dec 4, 2017 — The first terahertz image was taken at the AT&T Bell Laboratories more than 20 years ago in 1995. The astonishingly clear image of the inside of a packaged semiconductor integrated circuit brought immense attention to terahertz imaging for...
BioPhotonics, Jan 2018
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3D Imaging Aids Life Sciences Nov 2, 2017 — While human bodies and single cells are three-dimensional, imaging of them often was not. Data might be captured in two-dimensional slices during a computed tomography, magnetic resonance, ultrasound or even microscope study. But the interpretation...
BioPhotonics, Dec 2017
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