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This Week in Photonics: An Energy-Efficient Metamaterial That Operates in the IR Range (4/6/2017)

This Week in Photonics: An Energy-Efficient Metamaterial That Operates in the IR Range
Materials that are more efficient than metals and that feature wider bandgap measures than silicon are being developed for possible use in optical metamaterial applications.
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Thursday, April 6, 2017
       
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Optical Metamaterials Use III-V Semiconductors as Building Blocks
Optical Metamaterials Use III-V Semiconductors as Building Blocks
Materials that are more efficient than metals and that feature wider bandgap measures than silicon are being developed for possible use in optical metamaterial applications. All-dielectric materials using III-V semiconductors could be used to develop metamaterials that are efficient, resistant to energy loss and able to operate in the IR range.
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Imaging Gamma Rays to Help Decontaminate Fukushima
Imaging Gamma Rays to Help Decontaminate Fukushima
A novel camera for visualizing radioactive hot spots is being used to develop radioactivity maps for use in the decontamination of the site of the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima. The Electron Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) can perform simultaneous measurement of brightness and spectrum of MeV gamma rays.
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Nanoscale Sensor Detects Disease
Nanoscale Sensor Detects Disease
A new nanoscale sensor has been developed that can help detect cytokines — molecules that play a critical role in cellular response to infection, inflammation, trauma and disease. Researchers at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics created the modified graphene quantum dot (GQD) sensor that allows ultra-small amounts of cytokines to be identified in and around cells.
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Optoelectronic Device Speeds Parallel Processing
Optoelectronic Device Speeds Parallel Processing
To increase the speed of data transfer when many microprocessors are used in parallel, a novel device has been developed that uses surface plasmons to mediate optoelectronic imaging. The on-chip plasmonic switching device consists of a 2D disordered array of nanoholes on a thin metal film that can provide multiple-input and multiple-output channels for transferring information from a photonic to an electronic platform.
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Multiview Video Streaming Emerges as a Form of Visual-Content Representation
Multiview Video Streaming Emerges as a Form of Visual-Content Representation
Multiview video streaming — the ability to view a recorded scene from different perspectives — could revolutionize the entertainment industry and the workplace. Possible applications range from consumer electronics, computer games and virtual worlds to realistic video conferences and autonomous driving.
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Trioptics - Online Event: Strategies for Active Alignment of Lenses
Trioptics - Online Event: Strategies for Active Alignment of Lenses
As today’s optical systems require higher performance, we present solutions for the alignment of doublets and triplets that guarantee smaller tolerances in a shortened production time. At the beginning of the video, that is the recording of an online event conducted on March 29, 2017, traditional alignment methods are...

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SPIE Technologies and Applications of Structured Light
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SPIE Technologies and Applications of Structured Light 2017 features the latest advances in optical trapping and manipulation, pulse and beam shaping, and the applications of structured optical fields. These novel optical techniques combine with microscopy, spectroscopy and tomography on next-generation biomedical imaging. Structured Light 2017 is organized into two parallel conferences with some combined joint sessions: Optical Manipulation Conference and Biomedical Imaging and Sensing Conference. These two conferences comprise the full spectrum of advanced structured light technologies and biomedical sensing and imaging applications.
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