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Progressive Optics Ends Vehicle Blind Spots
The progressive adaptive optics technology commonly used to correct nearsightedness and reduced focusing ability has now been applied to a prototype automobile side mirror. “Unlike glasses, where the range of focus is vertically stacked [from distance viewing on top to close-up viewing on bottom], our mirror surface is horizontally progressive,” said Hocheol Lee of Hanbat National University. The result is a mirror with no blind spot.
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Nanophotonics Enables a New Kind of Optical Spectrometer
A novel approach that combines nanophotonics technology with traditional optical spectroscopy has yielded a new kind of optical spectrometer with sensing and spectral measurement functions, say its creators at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
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‘Li-Fi’ Could Unleash the Internet in Your Lights
Micron-sized LEDs under development by a consortium of UK universities could soon make it possible to simultaneously deliver Wi-Fi-like communications, power your laptop, display information and illuminate your home.
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Agiltron Offices Searched by Federal Agents
Federal agents and local police searched the offices of the photonic components and systems government contractor in an apparent investigation, according to media reports.
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Arresting Epileptic Seizures with Fiber Optics
Unpredictable epileptic seizures can now be stopped in their tracks with a new approach from the University of California, Irvine, that activates optical fibers implanted in the brain when a computer system detects a real-time seizure.
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Single-Photon Detector Is On Chip
By integrating single-photon detectors with nanophotonic chips, an international team of scientists led by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has developed a way to reliably detect single photons for optical data transmission and quantum computations.
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Thin-Film Solar Cell Efficiency Exceeds 20 Percent
Thin-film solar cells on flexible polymer foils, based on copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS), have set an efficiency record of 20.4 percent for converting sunlight into electricity, scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratory for Materials Science and Technology, report.
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Photonics West 2013, to be held at the Moscone Center, will feature more than 4450 technical presentations, 18 plenary talks, 40 technical events and 70 continuing education accreditation short courses. The technical conferences - up about 5 percent over last year - are organized around four symposia: BiOS (Biomedical Optics), LASE (Lasers and Applications in Science and Engineering), OPTO (Integrated Optoelectronic Devices) and MOEMS-MEMS (Micro- and Nanofabrication). A virtual symposium on Green Photonics also will be held. The trade show and conference kicks off with BiOS, where the latest optical and photonic technologies used in diagnostics, therapeutics, and imaging are presented and discussed.
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