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PODCAST: December 24, 2024 Light News

Dec. 24, 2024
Episode 31 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features our Light News photonics news roundup for December 24, 2024.

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Vortex laser pattern from 12-fold rotationally symmetric quasicrystal structure.

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Depiction of the adaptive sampling scheme, in which a laser beam patterned by a digital micromirror device selectively illuminates neurons and their activity in brain tissue.
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H&E staining on rat brain coronal slices from all treatment conditions at three days post-injury and four weeks post-injury. Images were taken from frontal cortex, corpus callosum, and choroid plexus (body of the lateral ventricle).

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In this episode: researchers build an optoacoustic neural network, a report on the booming semiconductor laser market, and the latest SPIE award recipients.
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Dec. 13, 2024
In this episode: research teams discover laser shadows, Coherent receives CHIPS Act funds, and the latest business partnerships and new hires.
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Photonics Hot List: December 6, 2024

Dec. 6, 2024
In this episode: Orbital angular momentum revolutionizes medical diagnostics, a new theory unveils the shape of single photons, and the latest industry news roundup.

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