News tagged with optics express
Shining light on diabetes-related blindness
A group of scientists in California is trying to develop a cheaper, less invasive way to spot the early stages of retinal damage from diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in American adults, before it leads ...
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Laser-sculpted optical devices for future giant telescopes
Future telescopes, with mirrors half the size of a football field, will need special components to deal with the light they collect. Astronomers are turning to photonic devices that guide and manipulate light inside specially-designed ...
Feb 05, 2009 |
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De-multiplexing to the max: 640 Gbits/second
Sliced light is how we communicate now. Millions of phone calls and cable television shows per second are dispatched through fibers in the form of digital zeros and ones formed by chopping laser pulses into bits. This slicing ...
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Using light to move and trap DNA molecules
(PhysOrg.com) -- A major goal of nanotechnology research is to create a "lab on a chip," in which a tiny biological sample would be carried through microscopic channels for processing. This could make possible ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 02, 2009 |
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