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Sculpted Light Captures Brain Activity
A high-speed imaging technique that “sculpts” the 3-D distribution of light in a sample can resolve a single neuron in a living worm, opening possibilities for studying the function of the organism’s nervous system and pairing brain function to anatomy. “Previously, we would have to scan the focused light by the microscope in all three dimensions,” said quantum physicist Robert Prevedel, a member of the University of Vienna team. “That takes far too long to record the activity of all neurons at the same time. The trick we invented tinkers with the light waves in a way that allows us to generate ‘discs’ of light in the sample.”
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New UV LED Suits Commercial Applications
An ultraviolet LED created from semiconductor nanowires doped with the rare-earth element gadolinium could lead to more portable and low-cost commercial uses of the technology.
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CNC Controlled Machines
OptoTech Optical Machinery
The SM 80 CNC generator and the SPO 80 CNC polisher make the ideal low-cost set of high speed CNC machines for Ø 5 to 80 mm.
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TOP-29 High Resolution Lens
Universe Kogaku (America)
Lens design and optical lenses for industrial, medical, high tech and electronic applications. Universe Kogaku America offers the TOP-29 lens, a very High Resolution 29MM F/3.0 lens with minimal distortion, and a flat field.
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Cutting Edge Imaging
PCO-TECH Inc.
PCO Tech has released the new pco.edge sCMOS brochure which shows and explains in detail all features and benefits of the breathtaking scientific CMOS image sensor technology in our pco.edge camera.
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Lunar Mission to Test Space Laser
With the Sept. 6 launch of NASA's moon-orbiting Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), the space agency is also venturing into what it hopes will be a new era of broadband space communications using lasers.
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Laser-Based Tool Tells Normal Tissue From Tumors
A new laser tool microscopically distinguishes between normal and cancerous brain tissue in real time. Since it doesn't miss cells that could trigger new tumor growth, the method could make brain cancer surgery much more effective.
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On this edition of the industry's only weekly newscast: NASA's mission to test space lasers takes flight, a laser-based tool can tell normal tissue from tumors, and we learn more about the do-it-yourself Galileoscope, featured at SPIE's Optics + Photonics 2013. Hosted by Photonics Media's Melinda Rose and Laura Marshall.
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SPIE: Optics + Photonics 2013 Shows Growth, Vitality
With busy exhibition aisles, overflowing plenary audiences and more than 70 technical conferences, this year’s SPIE Optics + Photonics show offered attendees a stimulating, fast-paced week that displayed growth and vitality, according to show organizers SPIE.
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Edmund Optics Awards Higher Education Grants
A novel approach to imaging protein-protein interactions, a holography-based technique to studying disease, and a new kind of instrument for improving the largest ground-based optical telescopes were the first-place winning projects in the optical components provider's 2013 Higher Education Global Grant Program.
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FiO 2013 — the 97th OSA Annual Meeting — and LS XXIX unite the Optical Society and American Physical Society (APS) communities for five days of quality, cutting-edge presentations, fascinating invited speakers and a variety of special events. The LS XXIX meeting serves as the 29th annual Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) of its Division of Laser Science (DLS) and provides an important forum for presenting the latest work on laser applications and development, spanning a broad range of topics in physics, biology and chemistry.
Special Symposia topics include: Advanced Distributed Optical Fibre Sensor Systems for Security and Safety Applications, Functional Imaging of Visual Systems, the 100th Anniversary of the Bohr Atom, Photonics for Quantum Information Processing, and Laser Science Symposium on Undergraduate Research.
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