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New Technique Uses Deep Learning to Speed Molecular Imaging TROY, N.Y., March 8, 2019 — A deep learning approach to image reconstruction, developed by a team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), generates comprehensive molecular images of organs and tumors in living organisms at high quality and ultrafast speed. The team’s new approach leverages compressed sensing-based imaging, a signal processing technique that can be used to create images based on a limited set of point measurements. The new method builds on earlier work by RPI researchers, who proposed a way to use...
Microscopic Robots Made from Silicon, Powered by Light PHILADELPHIA, March 12, 2019 — Using novel nanofabrication techniques, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University have built micro-robots made from silicon and powered by solar cells. One million functional microscopic robots can be produced from a...
NIR Imaging System Could Help Identify Hard-to-Detect Cancers at Earlier Stage CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 12, 2019 — An optical imaging system developed by MIT researchers could enable physicians to identify tiny tumors deep within the body, leading to earlier detection and treatment of cancer. The researchers call their system DOLPHIN, which stands for “Detection...
Coral Health Monitored with Underwater Robots and Hyperspectral Imaging BRISTOL, England, March 12, 2019 — A fluorescence hyperspectral camera mounted on an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is being developed by scientists at the University of Bristol and Sealife London Aquarium to cost-effectively monitor coral health. Corals and the...
Coherent Creates Center of Excellence for Industrial Laser Processing Systems SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 11, 2019 — Coherent Inc. has relocated its laser marking group and expanded its micromachining and subsystem facility from Gilching, Germany, to nearby Gunding, calling it its Center of Excellence and designating it as Coherent Munich. The relocation and...
Quantum Dots Are Tuned to Build IR Camera Cheaply, Efficiently CHICAGO, March 11, 2019 — To build an inexpensive IR camera, scientists at the University of Chicago leveraged the wide spectral tunability of colloidal quantum dots (CQDs), tweaking the CQDs to develop a formula to detect shortwave IR and another formula to detect midwave...
Ciena’s Kim Roberts Receives 2019 John Tyndall Award WASHINGTON, March 13, 2019 — Kim Roberts, Ciena Corp.’s vice president of WaveLogic Science, has been awarded one of the top honors in the fiber optics community by the Optical Society of America and the IEEE Photonics Society and is being recognized for being a major force in...
Hengtong Optic-Electric Invests $30M in Rockley Photonics to Extend Joint Venture OXFORD, England, March 8, 2019 — Rockley Photonics Inc. has received a $30 million investment from and expanded its strategic relationship with Shanghai Hengtong Optic-Electric Co. in a Suzhou-based joint venture with Hengtong addressing the burgeoning 400G DR4 transceiver market....
Alan Milinazzo to Join Opsens Board of Directors QUEBEC CITY, March 6, 2019 — Alan Milinazzo is joining Opsens as the chairman of its Board of Directors and brings with him experience in leading global businesses, as well as his expertise in driving adoption of new technologies for interventional cardiology, spine, and...
New Approach Facilitates Spectroscopy on Individual Molecules MUNICH, March 11, 2019 — A new spectroscopic measurement method, developed by scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), determines the spectral properties of individual molecules, providing precise information about the interaction of single molecules with...
3D Printer Uses Different Wavelengths to Print with Multimaterials MADISON, Wis., March 18, 2019 — A new 3D printer, developed by a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is using different patterns of visible and UV light to provide it with the spatial control necessary to yield multimaterial parts for creating more complex objects. To...
CompoundTek Partners with Silicon Photonics Group to Offer Design Services SINGAPORE, March 11, 2019 — Singapore-based silicon photonic foundry services provider CompoundTek has partnered with the Silicon Photonics Group at the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) to offer silicon photonics design services.
Microrotors Trap Tiny Objects Without Exposing Them to Light EXETER, England, March 18, 2019 — A team of researchers from the Universities of Glasgow, Bristol, and Exeter have developed a technique that optically traps microscopic objects by using hydrodynamic forces to exert nanoscale-precision control over aqueous particles, without...
Mele, Kane Win Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Discovering Topological Insulators BILBAO, Spain, March 8, 2019 — Physicists Charles Kane and Eugene Mele are the recipients of the 2019 Frontiers of Knowledge Award, for discovering topological insulators, described as a new class of materials with extraordinary electronic properties.
SPIE 2019 Harrison H. Barrett Award in Medical Imaging Goes to Four Pioneers in the Field BELLINGHAM, Wash., March 15, 2019 — Four renowned scientists have been honored for their accomplishments in the field of medical imaging with an inaugural award that also recognizes its namesake.
Optical Vortexes Could Help Meet Network Traffic Demands of Tomorrow TOKYO, March 14, 2019 — A multiplexer/demultiplexer module based on an optical vortex, built by scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology, could be used to strengthen optical networks so they can meet increasingly heavy traffic demands. The team developed an...
MACOM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Enter Strategic Collaboration LOWELL, Mass., and SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 20, 2019 — MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. and GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) have entered into a strategic collaboration to ramp MACOM’s innovative Laser Photonic Integrated Circuit (L-PIC) platform using GF’s current-generation silicon photonics offering, 90WG, to...
Light Conversion Names New CEO VILNIUS, Lithuania, March 13, 2019 — Martynas Barkauskas has been named Light Conversion’s new CEO, succeeding Algirdas Juozapavicius, who has been at the helm of the company since its inception in 1994.
Summit to Show That Top Megatrends Depend on Photonics BRUSSELS, March 8, 2019 — Later this month, one of Europe’s most prominent gatherings of photonics leaders will highlight the importance of light technologies in digitization megatrends such as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and...
Quantum Dots Create Distance Between Electron Spins for Quantum Computing COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 21, 2019 — Scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute have realized the swap of electron spins between distant quantum dots. This is significant for future quantum communications because it will allow the distance between the quantum dots to be large enough for...
Light Pulses Could Provide a New Route to Superconductivity WAKO, Japan, March 7, 2019 — Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have used light pulses to transform Mott insulators into materials that can conduct electricity without energy loss. Through numerical simulations, the researchers showed that pulse...
OSA, Google Collaborate for Subsea Optical Fiber Communications School WASHINGTON, March 8, 2019 — The OSA Foundation (OSAF) and Google have partnered to bring graduate students, engineers, and budding scientists to an international summer school that will focus on subsea optical fiber communications. The program, created by the OSAF and Google,...
Optical Clocks Contribute to Steering International Atomic Time TOKYO, March 7, 2019 — Optical clocks, which have seen rapid progress in the last 20 years, have evaluated the “one second” tick of International Atomic Time (TAI). The resulting data was provided to the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), which used the...
LASER World of PHOTONICS China 2019 Mar 7, 2019 — Touted as Asia’s largest trade fair for the photonics industry, LASER World of PHOTONICS China 2019 will run March 20-22, 2019, at the Shanghai New International Expo Center.
Ji-Xin Cheng Is Recipient of 2019 Ellis R. Lippincott Award WASHINGTON, March 15, 2019 — Ji-Xin Cheng, of Boston University, has been named the 2019 Ellis R. Lippincott Award recipient for outstanding contributions in inventing and developing a broad spectrum of vibrational spectroscopic imaging technologies with new discoveries and...
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