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Deformable Mirror Fights Thermal Distortion in Q-Switched Lasers
Deformable Mirror Fights Thermal Distortion in Q-Switched Lasers
Researchers at Tsinghua University look to optimize the performance of passively Q-switched lasers by confronting effects of thermal distortion. Their solution, a customized deformable mirror, proves to be ...
How Does Optical Storage Work
How Does Optical Storage Work
Within the past few decades the ability to optimize information storage has become increasingly important. The use of data to guide decision-making continues to grow rapidly, while the amount of data is ...
Laser Speckle Strain Imaging: A New Method to Study Delayed Fractures
Laser Speckle Strain Imaging: A New Method to Study Delayed Fractures
A team of researchers from the Wageningen University in the Netherlands has devised a new method of imaging solids as stress is applied to them. This method, called laser speckle strain imaging, reveals ...
BRAD-OCT for Characterizing Brain Diseases
BRAD-OCT for Characterizing Brain Diseases
Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna and TU Wien look to optimize optical neuroimaging with their innovative BRAD-OCT technique. Their method, published in the June edition of Biomedical Optics ...
Non-Ablative Fractional Lasers Fighting Colorectal Cancer
Non-Ablative Fractional Lasers Fighting Colorectal Cancer
A group of South Korean researchers recently published research revealing a new and innovative way to treat colorectal cancer and precancerous tissues using non-ablative fractional lasers (NAFLs). This new ...
Confocal Microscope on Smartphones: Skin Disease Diagnosis
Confocal Microscope on Smartphones: Skin Disease Diagnosis
Researchers from around the world came together to develop a low-cost smartphone confocal microscope for imaging human skin in vivo. The team’s main concern: disease diagnosis in low- and middle-income ...
Intravascular Imaging: Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Catheters for Clinical Use
Intravascular Imaging: Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Catheters for Clinical Use
A team of researchers from the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands optimized the use of intravascular imaging in the detection of coronary artery diseases via catheters. They ...
Full-Field Optical Coherence Tomography (FFOCT): The Future of Corneal Disease Diagnosis
Full-Field Optical Coherence Tomography (FFOCT): The Future of Corneal Disease Diagnosis
A new study presents a novel approach to imaging the human cornea. The research team at the Langevin Institute in Paris says their optical coherence tomography device is the first capable of full-field in ...
New Optical Tweezers Technique Revamps Single Cell Experimentation
New Optical Tweezers Technique Revamps Single Cell Experimentation
Researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK have developed a new design for optical tweezers using a single diode-coupled multicore fiber. The novel method promises a much more flexible ...
Diode Laser: The Most Versatile and Convenient Coherent Light Source
Diode Laser: The Most Versatile and Convenient Coherent Light Source
Introduction to the Diode Laser Researchers have been developing different types of coherent light sources to fit a larger span of applications since 1960. Present-day lasers vary in size, power-range, and ...