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Scientists Develop Modular Bridge Design for Nanoscale Photonic Chip

Light is emerging as the leading vehicle for information processing in computers and telecommunications as our need for energy efficiency and bandwidth increases.

18 May 2020

Using Light to Control a Component of Cells

Photopharmacology investigates the use of light to switch the effect of drugs on and off. Now, for the first time, scientific teams from Jena, Munich, and New York have succeeded in using this method to control a component of cells that was previously considered inaccessible.

18 May 2020

Researchers Use Light to Track Individual Molecules in Real Time

A research team at the Living Systems Institute of the University of Exeter has established a method for real-time monitoring of the properties and structure of individual molecules using light.

18 May 2020

Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation; High-Precision UVC Exposure Measurements

Gamma Scientific announces the release of its Germicidal Ultraviolet Irradiation measurements system to perform irradiance and radiant exposure measurements in the UVC region of the spectrum.

From Gamma Scientific 18 May 2020

Using Intense Synchrotron Radiation to Produce Higher-Quality CT Images

Several people would have undergone a CT scan at a certain point in their life—sliding in and out of a tunnel, with a huge machine rotating around. X-ray computed tomography, well-known by its acronym CT, is a technique extensively used to capture cross-sectional images of objects.

15 May 2020

Parabolic Mirrors for Optical Instruments

Optical Surfaces Ltd is a leading manufacturer of Off-Axis Parabolic Mirrors for optical instruments including radiometers, MTF measuring systems and spectrometers.

From Optical Surfaces Ltd. 14 May 2020

New Technique Uses Photonic Circuits to Speed Up Coherent LiDAR

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) includes a series of methods in which laser light is used to quantify distances by multiplying the time delay between received and transmitted optical signals with the speed of light.

14 May 2020

Ultra-Long-Working-Distance Spectroscopy with 3D-Printed Aspherical Microlenses

Researchers at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw have demonstrated micrometre-sized 3D-printed aspherical microlenses which can replace bulky microscope objectives in spectroscopic measurements of single point-like light emitters (e.g. quantum dots or atomically thin 2D materials).

14 May 2020

Alluxa Announces New Online Catalog for Fluorescence Filter Sets

Alluxa, Inc.,a global leader in high-performance optical coatings and filters and thin-film deposition technologies,announces an online catalog of fluorescencefilters developed for use in COVID-19 testing devices.

From Alluxa 14 May 2020

'Bug Zapper' Uses UV-C Light to Decontaminate N95 Masks

Right around the time in mid-March when Lehigh University moved to remote learning and researchers began to shut down on-campus labs, Nelson Tansu, the Daniel E. '39 and Patricia M.

13 May 2020

New Phase Imaging Method Shows Great Potential in Microscopy, Optical Metrology

Computational imaging (CI) techniques exploit optical device and calculation algorithms to reconstruct object information.

11 May 2020

New Method to Control Frequency of Confined Light at Nanoscale

An international team led by researchers from the University of Oviedo and the Centre for Research in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, together with scientist from the Basque research centers CIC nanoGUNE, DIPC, Materials Physics Center (CSIC-UPV/EHU), and international collaborators from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Austrian Institute of Technology, Paris Materials Centre, and University of Tokyo has discovered an effective method for controlling the frequency of confined light at the nanoscale in the form of phonon polaritons.

11 May 2020