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IR Digital Holography Lets Firefighters ‘See’ Through Flames
By employing a specialized lens-free technique, researchers at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) in Rome developed a system that can cope with the flood of radiation from an environment filled with intense flames and smoke. “IR cameras cannot 'see' objects or humans behind flames because of the need for a zoom lens that concentrates the rays on the sensor to form the image,” said Pietro Ferraro of CNR’s Istituto Nazionale di Ottica. By eliminating the need for the zoom lens, the new technique avoids this drawback. “Perhaps most importantly, we demonstrated for the first time that a holographic recording of a live person can be achieved even while the body is moving.” |
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Landmark Ireland Research Investment Includes Photonics
The largest-ever state/industry co-funded scientific research investment in Ireland — €300 million, or about $393 million — includes millions to establish a large-scale research center devoted to advancing photonics and biomedical science. |
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Virtual Photons Become Real in a Vacuum
Virtual particles can be transformed into real photons that can be experimentally observed, researchers at Aalto University and the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland discovered by changing the position of a mirror inside a vacuum. |
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As Sequester Nears, OSA Organizes ‘Week of Action’
OSA worked with the American Institute of Physics to create a community letter to members of Congress on the spending cuts and the potential impact of the sequester on federal funding for scientific research and development and will work in cooperation with scientific groups, encouraging them to alert their memberships of the pending deadline and enlist their grassroots support. |
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Laser Spectroscopy Narrows Search for Origins of Superconductivity
The mechanism underlying high-temperature superconductivity has remained one of the most important and tantalizing puzzles in physics, but new work that measures fleeting electron waves could help solve the mystery and pave the way for rapid technological advances, say researchers at MIT and Brookhaven National Laboratory. |
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Osram Coordinates High-Brilliance Infrared Laser Project
The three-year IMOTHEB (Integrated Micro-Optical and microTHhermal Elements for diode lasers of high Brilliance) project to improve high-brilliance infrared laser systems performance and to reduce production costs is supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. Project partners include Dilas Diode Laser and the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy. |
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Show to Cover New Apps for Ultrashort-Pulse Lasers
At May's Laser World of Photonics 2013 in Munich, Christof Siebert of Trumpf Laser- und Systemtechnik will chair the application panel “Latest Applications for Short-Pulse Laser Systems.” The continued development of ultrashort-pulse lasers is also an important aspect of the exhibition “Lasers and Laser Systems for Production Engineering” and a topic of discussion at the “Lasers in Manufacturing 2013” conference, which is part of the World of Photonics Congress at the show. |
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Techniques in Biophotonic Imaging
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Dr. Kimani C. Toussaint Jr.
Quantitative Imaging of Collagen Fibers Using Second-Harmonic Generation
University of Illinois, Photonics Research of Bio/Nano Environments (PROBE) lab group
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Photothermal Optical Coherence Tomography of Nanoparticle Contrast Agents
Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Optical Imaging Laboratory
Dr. Ofer Levi
Multimodal Optical Neural Imaging with VCSEL Light Sources
University of Toronto, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
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