Microscopy News
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Researchers Take Optical Coherence Tomography To The Next Level
6/1/2022
With clearer imaging and enhanced resolution, new OCT approach could improve medical diagnostic imaging.
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Bright Ideas — Fluids Viable For Freeform Optics, Visible Light Modulators See Improved SWaP
12/1/2021
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. This week, novel approaches are explored in freeform optics and fluorescence imaging, NASA nails down a new date for the James Webb Space Telescope launch, and Optica names its photo contest winners and honorary member award recipient.
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Bright Ideas: 9/22/21 — NASA & LISA To Catch Ripples in Gravitational Field, Nikon Picks 'Small World' Winners
9/22/2021
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. This week, a 3-mile laser beam successfully transmitted data across the Congo River and between two African cities, a new polarimetric imaging method is helping take clearer pictures in murky water, and the secret to cooking juicier chicken is... lasers?
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Bright Ideas: 8/30/21 — NASA's MISR Analyzes Wildfire Smoke, LiDAR To Detect Pipeline Methane Leaks
8/26/2021
Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. This week, a 3D-printed microscope detects COVID-19 in a single drop of blood, and scientists use imaging and machine learning to identify drought-tolerant crops.
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PI’s Digital Piezo Controller Family Grows Again
8/23/2021
Improved resolution with 24bit DAC, higher power integrated piezo amplifier, ideal for piezoelectric single-axis nanopositioning systems with capacitive position-feedback sensors, it’s compact, affordable, and new from PI.
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Bright Ideas: 8/23/21 — Raytheon Outfits Army Stryker With Laser | Nuclear Fusion Ignition Gets Closer
8/19/2021
Bright Ideas presents the week's most captivating news and innovations in photonics. This week, the U.S. Army debuted a laser-outfitted combat vehicle, researchers got even closer to achieving nuclear fusion ignition, and tech innovators found a way to use cellphone screens as pocket-sized breathalyzers.
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New Piezo Motor For AutoFocus/Nano-Metrology Applications
8/10/2021
The next gen piezo focusing stages, new from PI, have longer travel ranges to 800µm, faster step/settle, better guiding precision, and higher resolution.
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PI’s New Multi-Channel Piezo Driver
7/2/2021
PI’s new multi-channel piezo driver is based on 5 decades of piezo transducer and controller experience and is well-suited to operate a wealth of piezoelectric transducers including scanner tubes, shear actuators, and XYZ actuators, in static and dynamic applications.
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Prior Scientific Introduces The OpenStand Motorized Optical Stand
4/6/2021
A new motorized stand combined with Prior Scientific’s portfolio of automation and optical components offers a new way to develop custom optical platforms.
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Determining The Structure Of A Molecule With Laser-Induced Electron Diffraction
3/9/2021
Light microscopes have revolutionized our understanding of the microcosmos, but their resolution is limited to about 100 nanometers. To see how molecules bond, break, or change their structure, we need at least 1000 times better resolution.