This month is the second part of an interview with Professor Tom Koch, who is Dean of the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona (UA).
(Image courtesy of Mary Raven, University of California, Santa Barbara)
LED light engines are becoming increasingly popular for fluorescence microscopy, but standard filter sets—including those packaged with the sources—typically limit their performance...
The ability to excite specimens with multiple wavelengths is enabling great flexibility for leveraging the benefits of Raman spectroscopy in life sciences.
Startup World held its first-ever PHOTONICS Awards during the LASER World of Photonics trade fair—delivering top prizes to companies working in life sciences.
Cancerous growths release circulating tumor cells (CTCs) into the bloodstream, and their number indicates the effectiveness of therapy: A decrease during treatment means success...
Optical simulation software based on downhill simplex optimization allows engineers to efficiently find optimal designs for products with integrated LEDs or light pipes.
While maintaining full charge-handling capacity and low noise operation, monolithic CCD system-on-chip technology is now integrated within a CMOS environment in which backside...
Fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) provides an effective method of monitoring highways, railroads, and pipelines. With persistent gapless monitoring, this new capability...
By providing the backbone for the global telecommunications network, fiber optics helped create the Internet and helped us learn more about the rest of the world.
A random laser contains a gain material in which scattered light takes random paths, forming many small laser cavities and resulting in diffuse laser light.
Researchers are using Schottky barrier diodes in a 130 nm CMOS process operating above their cutoff frequency for detection of terahertz radiation at 9.74 THz.
On March 22, 2015, the fifth workshop in a series featuring optical networking and chaired by OSA Industry Development Associates, in collaboration with the Center for Integrated...
