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Optical Vacuum Cleaner can Trap Nanoparticles from the Environment

Researchers of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) together with Russian and international colleagues created the concept for building an “optical vacuum cleaner.”

11 Sep 2019

Opioid Detection: Headwall Hyperspectral Imaging Technology

Headwall hyperspectral imaging technology could be used for opioid detection.Image credit: Headwall Photonics, inc.Headwall Photonics, inc.

From Headwall Photonics, Inc. 11 Sep 2019

Creation and Control of Light Crystals

Optical microresonators turn laser light into ultrashort pulses moving around the resonator’s circumference. These pulses, known as “dissipative Kerr solitons,” can propagate in the microresonator keeping their shape.

10 Sep 2019

BLAZE® Enables Ultra-Multiplex CARS Spectroscopic Imaging

Teledyne Princeton Instruments, a world-renowned manufacturer of scientific imaging and spectroscopy equipment, and a Teledyne Technologies company, is pleased to recognize the recent work of Associate Professor Hideaki Kano of the University of Tsukuba, Japan.

From Teledyne Princeton Instruments 10 Sep 2019

Novel Optical Ruler can Compute Down to the Nanoscale

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have formulated a novel way to compute distances at the nanoscale—one nanometer is one-billionth of a meter—with the use of light.

6 Sep 2019

Asymmetric Dielectric Environment Favored by Narrow Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonances

Plasmonic nanostructures have been extensively used for improving light-matter interactions because of the strong local field enhancement in deep subwavelength volumes.

5 Sep 2019

IDS Announces more than 100 New USB3 Vision Camera Models

DS Imaging Development Systems GmbH is expanding its USB3 Vision camera range by more than 100 models in the coming weeks.

From IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH 5 Sep 2019

Lasers Used to Investigate Explosions

An explosion is a complex event in which rapidly changing pressures, temperatures, and chemical concentrations are involved.

4 Sep 2019

Latest Ultra-flexible LED Strip Lighting to Debut ELEX Show

New flexible LED Strip lighting will be making its debut on the LEDVANCE stand at ELEX Coventry this year, taking place at the Ricoh Arena, 19-20th September 2019.

From LEDVANCE GmbH 30 Aug 2019

Colorful Microreactors Utilize Sunlight

The sun is the most sustainable energy source available on our planet and could be used to power photochemical reactions. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists present a widely applicable, cost-effective photomicroreactor.

30 Aug 2019

First Light Fusion and Mott MacDonald to Deliver Design Vision for Fusion Power Plant

First Light Fusion, an Oxford-based global leader in researching energy generation via inertial fusion, and Mott MacDonald, a global engineering, management and development consultancy, are working together to produce a design vision of a “first of a kind” (FOAK) commercial fusion reactor.

From Mott MacDonald 30 Aug 2019

Laser Printing Tech Produces Waterproof E-Textiles in Minutes

The next generation of waterproof smart fabrics will be laser printed and made in minutes. That’s the future imagined by the researchers behind new e-textile technology.

30 Aug 2019

Multisite Optical Stimulator Could Advance Mammalian Behavioral Studies

Scientists have developed an implantable optrode array that can stimulate below-surface neurons in the brains of large mammals at two levels—through large-volume illumination and structured-light delivery.

30 Aug 2019

Human Night Vision Possible with Scientific Breakthrough

If possessing night-vision sounds like something straight from a comic book or sci-fi novel, then the lines between fiction and reality may have just blurred as scientists at the University of Massachusetts have made an astonishing breakthrough that allows mice to see infrared light.

By David J. Cross 29 Aug 2019

First Lunar Images Revealed by Chandrayaan-2

Boldly going where no other lunar mission has gone before, the moon’s south polar region, India’s Chandrayann-2 has transmitted fresh images of the surface of Earth’s natural satellite. Captured using the spacecraft’s Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC-2) the snaps were taken from an altitude of around 4375 km above the lunar surface.

By David J. Cross 27 Aug 2019