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This Week in Photonics: What's New in Microscopy, Materials and More (4/26/2018)

This Week in Photonics: What's New in Microscopy, Materials and More
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Thursday, April 26, 2018
       
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AO-LLSM Microscope Achieves Aberration-Free Imaging Across Large Volumes
AO-LLSM Microscope Achieves Aberration-Free Imaging Across Large Volumes
Scientists have combined lattice light-sheet microscopy (LLSM) with adaptive optics (AO) to capture high-resolution 3D movies of cells deep within living systems. The AO-LLSM microscope enables cells to be viewed in their native multicellular environments, under as gentle illumination as possible, with minimal external perturbation.
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New Bose-Einstein Condensate Couples Light with Metal Electrons
New Bose-Einstein Condensate Couples Light with Metal Electrons
Researchers created a new Bose-Einstein condensate, where the condensed particles were mixtures of light and metal electrons (so-called surface plasmon polaritons), in motion in gold nanorods arranged into a periodic array. Unlike most previous Bose-Einstein condensates created experimentally, the new condensate does not need to be cooled down to temperatures near absolute zero.
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Short, Strong Laser Pulses Advance Understanding of Strongly Correlated Materials
Short, Strong Laser Pulses Advance Understanding of Strongly Correlated Materials
In its search for materials and technologies that could help push the speed and storage limits of silicon-based computer technology, a team of researchers looked at a category of materials known as “strongly correlated systems,” so called because of the strong interactions between the electrons in such materials.
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Radiant Vision Systems, Test & Measurement - AR/VR Lens: Measure Displays in Headset AR/VR Lens: Measure Displays in Headset

Radiant Vision Systems, Test & Measurement
Displays viewed near to the eye, such as those in AR/VR devices, create immersive virtual experiences. However, as display images are magnified to fill a user’s field of view, display defects are also magnified. Issues with uniformity of brightness and color, dead pixels, line defects, cloudiness, and image position become more evident to the user whose eyes are only centimeters away from display screens.

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LightMachinery Inc. - The HyperFine Spectrometer The HyperFine Spectrometer

LightMachinery Inc.
Designed for measuring hyperfine spectra and subtle spectral shifts, the HyperFine spectrometer from LightMachinery is a compact, low cost spectrometer capable of sub-picometer resolution. It is ideal for pulsed laser characterization and for measuring the small spectral shifts from Brillouin scattering.

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PCO-TECH Inc. - Pioneering sCMOS Back Illuminated! Pioneering sCMOS Back Illuminated!

PCO-TECH Inc.
To see or not to see: If every single photon counts, PCO’s back illuminated sCMOS camera system pco.panda 4.2 bi can lead you to the answer. Enabled by PCO’s new back illuminated sensor and based on the latest innovations in sCMOS technology, the pco.panda 4.2 bi reaches a quantum efficiency of up to 95%.

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IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH - Novel App-based Industrial Cameras Novel App-based Industrial Cameras

IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH
Industrial cameras that are as versatile and easy to use as your smartphone? This has become reality. We introduce IDS NXT: the app-based approach of German camera manufacturer IDS transforms cameras and sensors into customized, smart vision sensors. You need your IDS NXT devices to solve a vision task that isn’t covered by standard apps.

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Whispering Gallery for Light Boosts Solar Cell Absorption and Photocurrent
Whispering Gallery for Light Boosts Solar Cell Absorption and Photocurrent
Researchers have developed a nanoscale coating for solar cells that enables the cells to absorb about 20 percent more sunlight than uncoated devices. The coating, developed by trapping light using an optical version of a whispering gallery, could open a new path for developing low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells with abundant, renewable and environmentally friendly materials.
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YouTube Phenom Builds Lasers From Spare Parts
YouTube Phenom Builds Lasers From Spare Parts
Drake Anthony calls himself a professional mad scientist on YouTube. That’s because … well … he sort of is. Anthony has built his own lasers since he was 12, when he first took apart a green laser pointer, modified it and made it stronger. Today, viewers of his styropyro YouTube channel can see a number of his laser building exploits.
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UV Light Exposure Causes Composite Material to Grow Stronger On Demand  Read Article 

Seaweed Forms Dynamic Opal-Like Photonic Nanostructures  Read Article 

Certara Acquires Analytica Laser  Read Article 

Blackbird, Intech Bolster Partnership in Japan  Read Article 

RTI Spinout SWIR Vision Systems Established in North Carolina  Read Article 

 
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AutoSens Detroit 2018
AutoSens Detroit 2018
May 14-17, 2018 - The Michigan Science Center - Detroit United States
Built on the vision of senior technical experts at automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, and delivered by conference experts with a passion for engineering, AutoSens is the world’s leading technical summit for ADAS and autonomous vehicle perception technology. Driven by OEM requirements to develop vehicle systems that can sense the external environment and provide accurate and useful information to inform ADAS decision making, the content for this conference is focused around the vehicle perception process chain.
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How the Metalens Will Transform Lens Technology and Everyday Devices
How the Metalens Will Transform Lens Technology and Everyday Devices
Wed, May 9, 2018 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Presented by Federico Capasso, whose work in quantum design led to the realization of the quantum cascade laser, this webinar will discuss monochromatic and achromatic metalens design, applications, and advantages over conventional lens technology. Capasso will discuss applications that his group is currently working on, including a collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Hand-held Spectrometers in 2018 and Beyond
Hand-held Spectrometers in 2018 and Beyond
Wed, May 16, 2018 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
This webinar will survey the hand-held and portable spectroscopy field, with an emphasis on optical instruments, their underlying technologies and their applications. X-ray fluorescence, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry will be covered briefly. Presenter Richard Crocombe, Ph.D., will review some of the devices that are on the market today and conclude with a look at where hand-held spectroscopy could be headed.
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