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    The new minimally invasive screening approach needs just a single drop of blood to detect health conditions.
    Justine Murphy
    Oct. 4, 2024
    A minimally invasive screening approach that works with a single drop of blood could potentially revolutionize both reactive and preventative healthcare.
    (Image credit: L. Jay Guo Laboratory, U-M Engineering)
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    Justine Murphy
    Sept. 30, 2024
    An optics-based machine-learning framework could be a game-changer in the push to design more advanced devices.
    (Image credit: Feihu Xu, University of Science and Technology of China)
    A compact and lightweight single-photon airborne LiDAR system could enhance air and space applications such as 3D terrain mapping.
    Justine Murphy
    Sept. 26, 2024
    A compact, energy-efficient LiDAR system makes airborne applications—including environmental monitoring and 3D terrain mapping—much more accurate.
    (Photo credit: Shanté Booker, CUNY)
    Andrea Alù in the lab.
    Sally Cole Johnson
    Sept. 23, 2024
    Simply heat up a new type of metasurface for unprecedented control over the spectrum, polarization, directionality, and wavefront shaping of its thermal emissions.
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    The portable smartphone-based Raman spectrometer system is capable of detecting and analyzing chemicals and other materials in the field.
    Justine Murphy
    Sept. 20, 2024
    From texting and navigation to banking and video streaming, smartphones are among the most multifaceted technologies ever developed. And now, chemical detection has joined its...

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    (Sample courtesy of Aoi Gohma and Atsushi Miyawaki, RIKEN CBS-EVIDENT Open Collaboration Center)
    Akira Saito
    Sept. 11, 2024
    Near-infrared (NIR) imaging can help mitigate the challenges of using visible light as an excitation source for biological research.
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    FIGURE 1. Experimental setup: Second-harmonic generation (SHG); intrapulse difference frequency generation (IDFG); electro-optic sampling (EOS); λ/4 (quarter-wave plate); mid-infrared (MIR).
    Dmitrii Konnov
    Sept. 9, 2024
    Spectrometry system obtains absorption spectra of gaseous molecules over a spectral range of 1.5 to 45 THz, with up to 240,000 spectral data points in a single measurement spanning...
    (Photo credit: Photonic Devices Laboratory/Bilkent University)
    In the lab (left to right) with their setup: Professor Onur Tokel, Alperen Saltik, Rana Asgari Sabet, and Mehmet Bütün.
    Sally Cole Johnson
    Sept. 2, 2024
    Researchers send laser pulses deep into a silicon wafer to achieve controlled nanofabrication inside it—and feature sizes down to 100 nm—without altering its surface.
    (Photo credit: MIT)
    Dr. Anuradha Murthy Agarwal and Prof. Lionel C. Kimerling in the lab.
    Aug. 22, 2024
    An effort to cut waste and reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with microchip manufacturing, led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Dr. Anuradha Murthy Agarwal ...
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    Mark Wade, CEO and co-founder of Ayar Labs.
    Jose Pozo
    Aug. 19, 2024
    Mark Wade, CEO and co-founder of Ayar Labs, discusses his career trajectory and what forged the path for the optical input/output (I/O) company.
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    Paul Cain
    Aug. 15, 2024
    How do push-pull lenses improve augmented reality (AR) applications?
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    Tomas Zvolensky
    Aug. 8, 2024
    How can liquid lenses help with early detection of this potentially life-threatening condition to save lives?
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    Ivan Nikitskiy
    July 29, 2024
    An optical revolution? Advancements in the design and manufacture of optical components leverages properties of metasurfaces and meta-optics to surpass traditional optical hardware...