Photonic integrated circuits can guide light on a chip with ultra-low low losses, and enhance optical fields using micro-ring resonators. (Image: Yujia Yan, EPFL)
The work could benefit transmission electron microscopy for application in materials science and structural biology
HOLO/OR, a developer of high-power Diffractive Optical Elements (DOE) manufacturing, has announced the release of a family of affordable, reduced cost, microscopy vortex phase plates
This paper demonstrates various options in digital microscopy to enlarge the object size yet maintain the original resolution. It will discuss and compare various methods, emphasising the advantage of Omek Optics solutions with consideration to the formats and pixel size of the imaging camera and the optical layout of the microscope.
Streptococcus Pneumoniae bacterium under STED imaging
Scientists will be able to observe bacteria like Streptococcus Pneumoniae at a resolution ten times higher than existing fluorescence microscopy techniques
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School students in the Santa Clara Unified School District are being given an introduction to microscopy and silicon chip production in a programme created with the semiconductor manufacturer KLA
Keely Portway looks at some of the new imaging techniques advancing biological investigation
2D arrangement of 44,400 light stopwatches enables scanless fluorescence lifetime imaging. Credit: Institute of Post-LED Photonics
The fluorescence microscopy technique uses frequency combs and no mechanical parts to observe dynamic biological phenomena
Algorithms let developers shrink microscopes, enabling innovation by building on existing technology, discovers Andy Extance
Photon Lines now offers a new microscopic biomechanical force sensor system called SENSOCELL from Impetux, of Barcelona, Spain
A new simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualise difficult-to-image biological organisms.
MIT researchers have developed a multi-layered chip that could dramatically reduce the cost of dark-field microscopes
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Tiny nanodiamonds are being used to dramatically optimise the calibration of optical microscopes, Matthew Dale finds
After the test disk is placed inside the chamber, some fine tuning is required to ensure they are horizontal and perfectly centred (credit: Caltech)
LIGO scientists have developed a new mirror coating that could dramatically increase the observatory's detection rate of gravitational waves
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Advances in research have made strides in the improvement of wearable and AR/VR displays
LLNL optical engineers Justin Wolfe (left) and Simon Cohen are seen through the 'r' filter (credit: Garry McLeod)
A telescope, described as one of the world’s newest, has been completed following a project undertaken by researchers to develop some very specialist optical filters
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Advances in optical prisms are being used to help researchers gain a greater understanding of space and astronomy
Universities offering associate degrees for optics technicians could help answer the photonics skills shortage, finds Jessica Rowbury
