Microscopy News

41. Bright Ideas — Exceptionally Brief Hard X-Ray Pulses, Silicon Photonics Kicking Down Doors, Gh-Gh-Gh-Ghost (Imaging), Butterfly Wings, And More 3/15/2023

    Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in optics and photonics. This week, we look at a couple of pieces of Optica news, a Texas A&M professor wins a major award, a photodetector shows enhanced sensitivity and speed, and more.

42. Bright Ideas — Quantum Imaging, Single Photons On A Chip, A Lattice With Properties Never Seen Before, And More 2/22/2023

    Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in optics and photonics. This week, we look at what’s happening with SPIE and Optica, explore nanophotonics, say hello to Eindhoven, and more.

43. Bright Ideas — Nuclear Fusion Yields 100 Million K and Lasts 20 Seconds, AI Boosts Fluorescence Microscopy 9/14/2022

    Bright Ideas presents the most captivating news and innovations in photonics. This week, scientists demonstrate nuclear fusion at 100 million Kelvin and for 20 seconds — at the same time, for the first time. Plus, biophysicists are speeding up fluorescence microscopy with AI, a new 3D-printed wearable device is helping lupus patients, and the LLNL wins three R&D awards. 

44. Zygo Announces A Brand Evolution To Reflect Its Half Century As A Global Leader 9/12/2022

    Zygo Corporation, a worldwide supplier of optical instruments, components, and systems, has just completed a refresh of its brand to better reflect its leadership position in the sectors it serves.

45. Zygo Corporation Collaborates With Digital Surf To Launch MX Software With Mountains Advanced Contour Module 9/12/2022

    Zygo Corporation has partnered with Digital Surf for the release of Mx™ with Mountains® Advanced Contour, a new software package for users of Zygo Corporation’s range of optical profilers.

46. A Lesson In Bioluminescence: Swimming With The Dinos 6/13/2022

    Forget swimming with the dolphins. Last month, I swam with the dinos. Well, technically, dinoflagellates. These single-cell creatures are responsible for one of nature's most captivating and inspiring phenomenon — bioluminescence — which has gone on to influence advances in medical imaging. 

47. 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.

48. 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.

49. 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?

50. 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.