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Prism Awards 2017 Winners Crowned
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1, 2017 — Prism Awards 2017 Winners Crowned Annual awards gala among high points of Photonics West 2017 Known as the Oscars of the photonics industry, the Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation each year highlight the best of the best. And the competition is fierce — from the first femtosecond fiber laser-pumped mid-IR supercontinuum source, and a drone-mounted natural gas surveillance system for indoor natural gas leakage inspection, to a unique optical component technology that can sense
Vacuum Impurities Could Impact OLED Lifetime
FUKUOKA, Japan, Feb. 1, 2017 — While issues affecting the efficiency of OLEDs are well understood, the reasons why some OLEDs degrade and lose brightness over time have not been as easy to identify. Devices fabricated with seemingly the same procedures and conditions but by...
Smart Needle Detects At-Risk Blood Vessels
ADELAIDE, Australia, Feb. 1, 2017 — A new high-tech tiny imaging probe encased with a brain biopsy needle could make brain surgery safer. Researchers from the University of Adelaide developed the medical device that will let surgeons "see" at-risk blood vessels as they insert the...
IPL Sintering Advance Could Improve Electronics Manufacturing
CORVALLIS, Ore., Feb. 1, 2017 — Research into the use of Intensed Pulsed Light (IPL) to rapidly fuse conductive nanoparticles has revealed that densification in IPL increases the density of a nanoparticle thin-film or pattern, with greater density leading to functional...
Ultra-High-Speed Optical Fiber Sensor Can Monitor Structural Health in Real Time
TOKYO, Jan. 31, 2017 — A real-time fiber-optic distributed sensing system for monitoring strain and temperature in physical structures has been developed, which requires light injection from only one end of the fiber. The novel sensing system demonstrated a sampling rate...
CU Boulder Team Tracks Methane Leaks with Lasers
BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 31, 2017 — With a $1.3 million grant from the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of California Davis, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and aircraft...
Remote Sensing Data Helps Scientists Measure Biodiversity
LEIPZIG, Germany, Jan. 30, 2017 — Remote sensing methods, which have been used to measure biological diversity for about 30 years, show even greater potential for assisting biodiversity research in the future. A key task of this research is to record the current state of diversity,...
Infrared Hologram Device Achieves New Optical Properties
CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 30, 2017 — Australian National University physicists have invented a tiny device that creates the highest quality holographic images ever achieved, opening the door to imaging technologies often seen in science fiction movies. "As a child, I learned about the...
Computer Tomography, Volumetric Imaging Reveal Details of Ancient Past
LINKÖPING, Sweden, Jan. 27, 2017 — Computer tomography (CT) scanning and volumetric visualization have been used to create a 3D display of the Geberlein Man, a 5,500 year-old natural mummy buried during the late pre-dynastic period at the site of Gebelein in Upper Egypt. Visitors to...
Space-Borne Lidar Enables Continuous View of Plankton Cycles in Earth’s Polar Regions
CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 27, 2017 — A space-based sensor that can penetrate fog, clouds and darkness has given scientists a decade-long set of images which provide a continuous view of polar phytoplankton biomass cycles. Traditional passive sensors, when used in regions that...
Liquid Lens Paired With Infrared Light and a Smartphone Creates Smart Glasses
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 26, 2017 — Liquid-based lenses that automatically focus on what a person is seeing could replace reading glasses and bifocals in the near future. The human eye has a lens inside that adjusts the focal depth depending on what is being viewed. But as people age,...
Far-Infrared Cameras and Drones Turn Construction Vehicle Into Disaster-Relief Robot
OSAKA, Japan, Jan. 25, 2017 — A group of Japanese researchers have developed a prototype construction robot for disaster relief situations equipped with far-infrared ray cameras and the ability to deploy a drone. This prototype has drastically improved operability and mobility...
Transformation Optics Conceals Objects in Diffusive Environments
VALENCIA, Spain, Jan. 24, 2017 — Researchers have devised a new cloaking device that could conceal aircraft in fog or a submarine in the sea. Both the fog and the sea serve as diffusive environments in which light is not propagated in a straight line, which makes his cloaking...
Smartphone Microscope Detects Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Reactions
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23, 2017 — A novel smartphone-based microscope could make DNA sequence analysis much easier, faster and more readily accessible in remote locations.
Selective Laser Melting Produces Safer Automotive Components, Minimizes Waste
NOTTINGHAM, England, Jan. 23, 2017 — Using selective laser melting (SLM), engineers are creating lightweight automotive components that boost vehicle fuel efficiency, cut noise and lessen CO2 emissions. Engineers at The University of Nottingham have developed the new additive...
Self-Assembling Particles Could Produce Lower Cost LEDs
PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 19, 2017 — Self-assembling nanoscale perovskite — crystalline substances — particles could be a more efficient and lower-cost alternative material for LEDs.
3D Scans Help Automotive Industry Evaluate Data Aimed at Increasing Production Flexibility
WÜRZBURG, Germany, Jan. 16, 2017 — Today’s car factories are leaning towards having one production line suitable to manufacture frequent model changes and smaller volumes. This requires increased flexibility in production, more robots and a higher level of digitization. Andreas...
Squeezing Light Cools Microscopic Drum Below Quantum Limit
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 16, 2017 — Using a special circuit to generate microwave photons stripped of intensity fluctuations, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have cooled a mechanical object to a temperature lower than previously thought...
Medical Imaging Innovator Christine Hendon Wins Presidential Honor
NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2017 — Christine Hendon, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has won the Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), the highest honor the U.S. government gives to young scientists and engineers. Hendon develops innovative...
Compact Lasers Recreate Conditions Inside Stars
FORT COLLINS, Colo., Jan 12, 2017 — With compact lasers that use ultra-short laser pulses irradiating arrays of aligned nanowires, scientists are recreating the extreme conditions found in stars. Previously, this was only possible with large “stadium-sized” lasers, as the...
ASU Spectrometer to Fly on NASA Asteroid Mission
TEMPE, Ariz., Jan. 12, 2017 — A spectrometer developed by Arizona State University will fly onboard a NASA mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. The Lucy mission has been chosen under the agency's Discovery Program, a series of cost-capped exploratory missions into the...
Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Device Offers Widest Real-Time Views of the Sun
BIG BEAR, Calif., Jan. 11, 2017 — A groundbreaking new optical device has been developed to correct images of the Sun previously distorted by multiple layers of atmospheric turbulence. The device developed at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) Big Bear Solar...
Plasmonic Nanolaser Opens the Way for Coherent On-Chip Light Sources
ESPOO, Finland, Jan. 9, 2017 — Using “dark lattice modes” researchers at Aalto University have created a plasmonic nanolaser that operates at visible light frequencies. The laser works at length scales 1000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair. The results...
Winship Installs Lattice Sheet Microscope
ATLANTA, Jan. 6, 2017 — The Winship Cancer Institute at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center at Emory University became one of only 15 sites worldwide to receive a lattice sheet microscope. Different than conventional microscopy, lattice light sheet microscopy allows...
Optogenetics Platform Uses Light to Activate Control of Intracellular Phase Transitions
PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 6, 2017 — A novel optogenetics platform, dubbed optoDroplet, uses light to activate phase transitions inside living cells. The optoDroplet system is being used to study the condensed phases driven by intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs). Its use...

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