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    • Bio&Life Sciences

    The laserfocusworld.com Bio & Life Sciences channel features articles and other content that discuss lasers, optics, and instrumentation for the life sciences.

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    FIGURE 1. Transforming bacteria into solar-powered lasers: we extract light-harvesting structures from bacteria (left), enhance them with proprietary specially engineered lasing units (middle), and place them into a lasing cavity (right) to create a new type of laser that runs directly on sunlight. The natural light-gathering rings (green/purple) of purple bacteria measure 60-nm across and achieve near-perfect efficiency in energy transfer of captured photons.
    Lasers & Sources

    Bio-inspired approach to harvest sunlight and convert it into laser beams in space

    Erik Gauger
    Feb. 7, 2025
    A new way to power space missions piggybacks on bacteria's efficient light-harvesting abilities to create sunlight-powered lasers—and could enable power transmission between satellites...
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    Lasers & Sources

    Modulated laser offers 100-mW output power

    HÜBNER Photonics - a div of HÜBNER GmbH & Co KG
    Dec. 23, 2024
    An orange wavelength has been added on the Cobolt 06-01 Series of modulated lasers.
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    Detectors & Imaging

    Confocal Raman microscope supports multimodal imaging techniques

    CRAIC Technologies
    Dec. 21, 2024
    The Apollo M confocal Raman microscope is designed for materials research, nanotechnology, and semiconductor analysis.
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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.
    Bio&Life Sciences

    Two-photon microscope cracks neural networks code

    Justine Murphy
    Dec. 13, 2024
    A novel fluorescence microscope offers enhanced insight into how different neurons in the brain communicate and interact.
    FIGURE 1. Schematic of the HDSP setup (a), printed parts with line cross-section and different extrusion paths for parts 1-3 (b), and a complex object in 4 with the shown pressure pattern in the inset.
    Detectors & Imaging

    Holographic direct sound printing: Sound waves revolutionize 3D printing

    Mahdi Derayatifar
    Dec. 11, 2024
    Holographic direct sound printing (HDSP) is an innovative advancement in sound-based 3D printing technology that uses a patterned acoustic field to create complex shapes with ...
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    Photonics IP Update: October 2024

    Iain McIntyre
    Nov. 6, 2024
    This roundup summarizes photonics-related patent litigation and Patent Office procedures for October.
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    Bio&Life Sciences

    Digital fluorescence microscope offers AI-powered confluency checks

    Leica Microsystems GmbH
    Oct. 30, 2024
    The Mateo FL artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital fluorescence microscope performs cell culture checks in advanced research applications.
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    Stress-Free Objective Lenses for High Precision Imaging

    Avantier Inc
    Oct. 28, 2024
    In the continuous evolution of optical technology, stress-free objective lenses have emerged as a leading solution, particularly for advanced polarized light microscopy. These...
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    FIGURE 1. In a conventional CT scanner, an x-ray source rotates around the patient. Indirect detectors provide the data from which a 3D image is generated.
    Bio&Life Sciences

    Photon-counting detectors are poised to revolutionize computed tomography

    Roger Steadman
    Oct. 23, 2024
    For 50 years, computed tomography (CT) has been one of the most valuable diagnostic tools and, thanks to photon-counting detectors, the next revolution of computed tomography ...