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Next generation confocal platform for super-resolution live cell imaging in multicolor

World-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative microscope solutions, Leica Microsystems, has announced the launch of a new generation of its leading SP8 confocal microscope platform, now with built-in LIGHTNING de...

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 9 Apr 2019

Simple Mid-Infrared Laser Source Could Help Detect Pollution or Molecules Found in a Person's Breath

EPFL researchers have created a unique middle infrared light source that is capable of detecting greenhouse and other kinds of gases, and also molecules present in a person’s breath.

5 Apr 2019

Spin Lasers May Potentially Accelerate Data Transfer in Optical Fiber Cables

Engineers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have created a unique concept for fast data transfer via optical fiber cables. In present-day systems, a laser conveys light signals via the cables and information is coded in the variety of light intensity.

5 Apr 2019

Scientists Use “Optical Tweezers” to Trap Single, Neutral Rubidium Atoms

The concept of trapping single atoms can be applied to herding cats, which makes scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder skilled feline wranglers.

4 Apr 2019

AGM Highlights European Photonics Leading Position

This year's Photonics PPP annual gathering, at the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, began by highlighting the strong position of European photonics.

4 Apr 2019

Testing Radiation Resistance Without Using a Nuclear Reactor

The University of Huddersfield’s combined electron microscope and ion beam accelerator is a world-class facility responsible for a large and growing global network of research collaborations.

4 Apr 2019

EVT at the Control 2019

With the Machine Learning Tool “Homogeneity Inspector” the EyeVision software can detect defects on structured surfaces and that completely without previous configuration.

From EVT Eye Vision Technology 3 Apr 2019

Researchers Develop RoHS-Compliant, High-Performance Infrared Photodetectors Using Material Defects

ICFO scientists have developed an extremely sensitive CMOS compatible broadband photodetector by modifying material defects.

3 Apr 2019

New Ultra-Thin, Miniaturized Optical Chip Could Play a Key Role in Personalized Medicine

Every individual may have a simple device in the near future. This device would be so small that it can be kept on a nightstand, or can even be accommodated in people’s pocket.

3 Apr 2019

National Photonics Manufacturing Pilot Line

Tyndall National Institute and ficonTEC Service, along with other industry partners including Eblana Photonics, Faz Technology, mBryonics and Sanmina, have come together to build the National Photonics Manufacturing Pilot Line, an integrated photonics manufacturing ecosystem located within a single state-of-the-art facility and designed to advance disruptive photonic technologies from concept to commercialisation.

From ficonTEC Service GmbH 2 Apr 2019

Researchers Use Laser Technology to Examine Cancer Cells

Doctors need to know something about the traits of cancer from which a patient is suffering to be able to devise the best treatment for the patient. But one of the extreme challenges in treating cancer is that not all cancer cells are the same.

2 Apr 2019

A Two-Pronged Approach Helps Measure and Self-Adjust the Spectral Power Distributions of LED Lighting Systems

An article titled, “Arbitrary spectral matching using multi-LED lighting systems” has been recently reported in the SPIE journal Optical Engineering, highlighting a significant development in lighting science and technology.

1 Apr 2019

New Perovskite-Based LEDs Offer Record Efficiency of 21.6%

Linköping University (LiU) has successfully produced efficient near-infrared (NIR) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) of perovskite in a laboratory.

29 Mar 2019

$Miniature Optical Elements Could Soon Replace Traditional Refractive Lenses$

Miniature Optical Elements Could Soon Replace Traditional Refractive Lenses

A research team at Northwestern University has created tiny optical elements from metal nanoparticles and a polymer that soon might replace traditional refractive lenses to realize portable optoelectronic devices and imaging systems.

29 Mar 2019