Editor’s Picks

61. A Multishot Lensless Camera In Development Could Aid Disease Diagnosis 9/23/2020

    A new type of imaging that does not require a lens and uses reconfigurable particle-based masks to take multiple shots of an object is being developed by researchers at Penn State.

62. World's Smallest Optical Implantable Biodevice 4/23/2018

    Japanese researchers describe a new implantable device no bigger than the width of a coin that can be used to control brain patterns. The device, which can be read about in AIP Advances, converts infrared light into blue light to control neural activity and is both the smallest and lightest wireless optical biodevice to be reported.

63. A Spin Wave Detective Story: NIST Researchers Verify Surprising Behavior In A 2D Magnet 2/18/2020

    Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered a surprising feature in two-dimensional (2D) magnets, a new class of materials receiving a great deal of attention.

64. Powerful Radiation Source To Further Cancer Research 7/11/2006
    Physicists will construct an ultra-high intensity THz beamline and attempt to destroy skin cancer cells specially grown in a new tissue culture facility. The experiments will help scientists understand how to use this technology in future treatments for the disease in humans...
65. MKS Instruments Announces Ophir Wide Beam Imager For Measuring Large And Divergent Beams Of SWIR Wavelengths 11/17/2021

    MKS Instruments, Inc., a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, has announced the Ophir Wide Beam Imager SWIR (WB-I SWIR), a compact, calibrated optical system for measuring the size and power distribution of large and divergent beams of VCSELs and LEDs in the SWIR range (900 - 1700nm).

66. 200-Terawatt Laser Brings New Extremes In Heat, Pressure To X-Ray Experiments 10/5/2015

    A newly upgraded high-power laser at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will blaze new trails across many fields of science by recreating the universe’s most extreme conditions, such as those at the heart of stars and planets, in a lab.

67. Photoacoustics Technology Could Help Doctors Find Cancer Cells 2/25/2010
    Knowing the stage of a patient's melanoma is important when choosing the best course of treatment. When the cancer has progressed to the lymph nodes, a more aggressive treatment is needed.
68. Supercontinuum Lasers Can Lead To Better Bread And Beer 9/19/2017

    Researchers from the Department of Food Science (FOOD) at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark are the first in the world to have analysed whole grains with long near-infrared wavelengths using a new type of light source, the supercontinuum laser.

69. White Paper: Geiger-Mode Avalanche Photodiode Focal Plane Arrays For Three-Dimensional Imaging LADAR 8/31/2010
    Through the use of laser radar (LADAR) to obtain high-resolution range measurements at each pixel of an imager, it is possible to obtain image data in three spatial dimensions that provides information about imaged scenes and objects which is superior to that provided by traditional two-dimensional intensity images. Whereas intensity images require that object shapes be inferred from edge examination and complex image processing algorithms that generally require assumptions that are not implicit in the image data, three-dimensional data removes the ambiguity of edge determination and provides far more definitive information concerning imaged objects. By Princeton Lightwave Inc.
70. 60-Year-Old Limit To Lasers Overturned By Quantum Researchers 10/27/2020

    A team of Australian quantum theorists has shown how to break a bound that had been believed, for 60 years, to fundamentally limit the coherence of lasers.