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FIGURE 1. A Chromacity engineer aligns an ultrafast fiber laser with second-harmonic generation.

Lasers & Sources

Ultrafast lasers drive nonlinear microscopy, environmental sensing, and quantum technologies

Wojciech Gora

Feb. 10, 2025

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Dec. 24, 2024

Lasers & Sources

Modulated laser offers 100-mW output power

HÜBNER Photonics - a div of HÜBNER GmbH & Co KG

Dec. 23, 2024

Detectors & Imaging

Confocal Raman microscope supports multimodal imaging techniques

CRAIC Technologies

Dec. 21, 2024

Depiction of the adaptive sampling scheme, in which a laser beam patterned by a digital micromirror device selectively illuminates neurons and their activity in brain tissue.

Bio&Life Sciences

Two-photon microscope cracks neural networks code

Justine Murphy

Dec. 13, 2024

FIGURE 1. Schematic of the HDSP setup (a), printed parts with line cross-section and different extrusion paths for parts 1-3 (b), and a complex object in 4 with the shown pressure pattern in the inset.

Detectors & Imaging

Holographic direct sound printing: Sound waves revolutionize 3D printing

Mahdi Derayatifar

Dec. 11, 2024

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Podcasts

PODCAST: Interview with Andrea Armani, University of Southern California

Justine Murphy

Feb. 18, 2025

Episode 39 of Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast features Dr. Andrea Armani, senior director of engineering and physical sciences at the Ellison Medical Institute and ...

Lead researchers Dr. Song Wang (left), a research scientist at SMART DiSTAP, and Dr. Yangyang Han (right), a senior postdoctoral associate at SMART DiSTAP.

Bio&Life Sciences

First-of-its-kind chromatic sensor detects plant distress

Justine Murphy

Feb. 17, 2025

It’s not always easy to tell if a plant is dehydrated, and sometimes it’s too late to save it. But a sensor designed by an international team of scientists detects distress in...

H&E staining on rat brain coronal slices from all treatment conditions at three days post-injury and four weeks post-injury. Images were taken from frontal cortex, corpus callosum, and choroid plexus (body of the lateral ventricle).

Bio&Life Sciences

Light therapy approach better treats brain injuries

Justine Murphy

Nov. 25, 2024

Photobiomodulation could soon expand its effectiveness beyond tissue repair and pain management into the brain.

FIGURE 1. In a conventional CT scanner, an x-ray source rotates around the patient. Indirect detectors provide the data from which a 3D image is generated.

Bio&Life Sciences

Photon-counting detectors are poised to revolutionize computed tomography

Roger Steadman

Oct. 23, 2024

For 50 years, computed tomography (CT) has been one of the most valuable diagnostic tools and, thanks to photon-counting detectors, the next revolution of computed tomography ...