Cancerous growths release circulating tumor cells (CTCs) into the bloodstream, and their number indicates the effectiveness of therapy: A decrease during treatment means success...

Plenty of news reports this summer demonstrate how the smartphone is increasingly being leveraged as a platform for biomedicine.

Incorporating glass and ceramic components into optical systems benefits from making the right choices in materials, design, and fabrication.

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.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers use multiphysics simulation to develop techniques to repair fused-silica optics.

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...

Researchers have developed a new way to exploit optical microscopy for identifying bacteria.

The trends of miniaturization and high-speed performance place demands on a product's thermal and optical properties.

A new interferometric absorption design has pixels that can be tuned through a continuum of colors.

A group in Canada has reported a mid-IR femtosecond fiber laser, a device emitting at a 2.8 μm wavelength.

When old hands in photonics talk about the telecom boom at the turn of the century, they tend to get a little misty-eyed.