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Optical Myography: Detecting Hand Posture by Looking at Forearm
Optical Myography: Detecting Hand Posture by Looking at Forearm
Optical myography is a technique that visually inspects the human forearm to determine the hand posture. Hand posture is a communication element as important as the language itself. Human hand gesture ...
Optical Vehicle to Vehicle Communication System: How It Works
Optical Vehicle to Vehicle Communication System: How It Works
Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication system enables vehicles to wirelessly exchange information about their speed, location, and traffic information. The technology behind V2V communication allows ...
Medical Lasers: A Guide to Various Effects and Choices
Medical Lasers: A Guide to Various Effects and Choices
The first medical application of lasers was reported by Goldman in 1962. In cardiovascular surgery, McGuff first used a Ruby laser in 1963 for the experimental ablation of atherosclerotic plaques. After a ...
Surface Emitting Lasers: Types and Applications in Sensing
Surface Emitting Lasers: Types and Applications in Sensing
Since the first demonstration of the laser in 1960, people have endeavored to make lasers more compact. Semiconductor lasers achieved this desired compactness employing so called heterostructures. This ...
Diode Lasers for Cytometry: Cell Counting and Sorting
Diode Lasers for Cytometry: Cell Counting and Sorting
Since the invention of the first operating laser in 1960, lasers have been designed in various regions of the electromagnetic spectrum and output powers. Soon after the advent of semiconductor fabrication ...
Silicon Photonic Circuits for Optical Interconnects and All Optical Processing
Silicon Photonic Circuits for Optical Interconnects and All Optical Processing
Silicon photonics is the technology of using optical processing components made of silicon itself, rather than other materials. Electronic interconnects with copper contribute to high power consumption and ...
Optimizing 3D Body Scanning for Research and Industry
Optimizing 3D Body Scanning for Research and Industry
3D body scanning lends itself to a wide variety of fields. Healthcare professionals can use body scans to make 3D printed prosthetics, animation studios can use body scans for highly-accurate portraits, ...
Light Operated Nanomotors: How Optics Drives Nanotech Forward
Light Operated Nanomotors: How Optics Drives Nanotech Forward
Small mechanical systems and optics are interlinked in many ways. People use lasers to create small electronic systems like those found in semiconductors. Increasingly, light plays an important role in ...
New Photon Counting Plugin Solves Image Problems in Neurology
New Photon Counting Plugin Solves Image Problems in Neurology
Multi-photon microscopy is a useful tool for analyzing in-vivo interactions between photons and living tissues. One of its characteristics is deep tissue penetration, meaning it can get a better look at ...
Photodynamic Therapy: Targeting Cancer with Light
Photodynamic Therapy: Targeting Cancer with Light
How research in photodynamic therapy may lead to new treatments of deadly diseases like cancer. Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is most often associated with asbestos exposure.  Despite efforts of ...