Many coral species, which are key for sustaining tourism, fishing, and human activity, may not survive beyond the end of this century due to ocean warming and acidification.
Image courtesy of Rhoda Baer, National Eye Institute
Designed to expand the utility of super-resolution optical imaging methods PALM and STORM, a new adaptive optics approach enables the localization of a single emitter in all three...
A major challenge in optical screening of cancer is to locate tumors deep within organs. "Smart" contrast agents -- along with novel, efficient optical tomography instrumentation...
Light sources based on vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) technology enable optical coherence tomography (OCT) to achieve long imaging range, high speed, and flexibility...
Biophotonics was a major theme at this 40th anniversary edition of the biennial mega-event LASER World of Photonics trade fair and World of Photonics Congress (May 13-16, 2013...
Although the United States currently leads the world in biophotonics, other nations are making significant investments -- and as a result, the country has lost substantial global...
By shining light of various colors through a nanoscale synthetic-polymer sphere, researchers have fashioned volcano-shaped nanostructures able to store precise amounts of other...
For her PhD thesis, Aránzazu Jurío-Munárriz, a graduate student in computer engineering at the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre in Spain, has improved two of the algorithms...
An iPhone app and an optics-rich smartphone cradle are enabling sensitive yet inexpensive biosensing of toxins, proteins, bacteria, viruses, and other molecules.
Research in optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology has recently focused on development of ultrafast (>100 kHz A-line rate) Fourier domain OCT (FD-OCT).
In a Market Focus session titled Medical and Aesthetic Lasers - the Future of Light-Tissue Interaction, presentations at OSA's Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2013...
