Researchers have shown that a detection technology borrowed from quantum optics can be used to perform optical coherence tomography (OCT) with much lower light power than previously possible. This could greatly improve the ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 17, 2020
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Researchers have developed a new strategy that uses optical coherence tomography (OCT) to acquire both the surface and underlying details of impressionist style oil paintings. This information can be used to create detailed ...
Optics & Photonics
May 20, 2020
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Inserting air into hot glass to form a bubble has been used to make glass objects since Roman times. In new work, researchers apply these same glass blowing principles on a microscopic scale to make specialized miniature ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 25, 2019
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Radar technologies were originally designed to identify and track airborne military targets. Today they're more often used to detect motor vehicles, weather formations and geological terrain.
Optics & Photonics
Apr 2, 2019
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Researchers have developed the first wearable probe that enhances the sense of touch by imaging and quantifying the stiffness and elasticity of biological tissue. The device is being developed to improve the surgical removal ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 12, 2019
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Scientists have plenty of ways to watch as individual neurons in a brain fire, sending electrical signals from one to the next, but they all share a basic problem. Each method, whether it involves electrical probes, chemical ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 13, 2018
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With a thin probe and a burst of microwaves, doctors can eradicate cancer cells without opening up a patient for surgery.
Optics & Photonics
Apr 27, 2018
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You may not have heard of optical coherence tomography, or OCT. But if you've visited an ophthalmologist recently, chances are your eye came within an inch or two of a scanning device employing the technology. Tens of thousands ...
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Jun 20, 2017
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In 2014, when University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers announced in the journal Nature Communications that they had developed transparent sensors for use in imaging the brain, researchers around the world took notice.
Nanomaterials
Oct 13, 2016
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Engineers and physicians at Duke University have developed a handheld device capable of capturing images of a retina with cellular resolution. The new probe will allow researchers to gather detailed structural information ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 1, 2016
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