Articles from Laser Focus World

1. TUNABLE SOURCES: Telecom laser investments pay off in near-IR instrumentation

   Laser Focus World (Oct 3 2008) Explore Article

   A fortunate ancillary benefit of the massive investment in telecommunications sources has been in other areas requiring tunability at similar wavelengths such as measurement and fiber-optic sensing systems. ... (Read Full Article)
   

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2. Biomedical Imaging: MEMS scanners enable in vivo 3-D OCT

   Laser Focus World (Aug 1 2008) Endoscopy Explore Article

   While nonoptical medical imaging techniques such as computed tomography, magnetic-resonance imaging, and ultrasound can be very useful in guiding surgical procedures, they lack the spatial resolution required for revealing tissue microarchitecture, which can be important in time-critical applications, such as staging of tumors.1 In contrast, optical imaging modalities such as confocal, two-photon, and fluorescence microscopy, and optical coherence tomography (OCT) provide depth-resolved imaging even in turbid media, with cellular-level detail. ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   University of Texas at Austin   Karthik Kumar   Thomas E. Milner

3. Fiber is superbroadband source

   Laser Focus World (Jun 27 2008) Explore Article

   Optical-fiber-based broadband light sources are desirable for applications such as spectroscopy or optical coherence tomography because, being effectively point sources, they have very high beam quality and spatial coherence. Various types of fiber sources exist, including white-light supercontinuum and doped superfluorescent, and bandwidths can reach from less than 100 up to 300 nm or so. But researchers at the University of Bern (Bern, Switzerland) and Silitec Fibers (Boudry, Switzerland) have ... (Read Full Article)
   

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4. Photonic Frontiers: Microscopy Techniques - The quest to see inside living cells is driving new optical microscopy

   Laser Focus World (May 13 2008) Microscopy Explore Article

   Microscopes have given scientists vital insight into living things ever since Robert Hooke and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek discovered the microscopic world in the 17th century. Now the quest for better views of living cells is pushing development of new types of optical microscopy that overcome the traditional limitations without sacrificing the advantages of visible light. (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Duke University   Cornell University   Adam Wax

5. Optoelectronic Applications: Nondestructive Testing - Laser-based instrumentation sheds new light on old art

   Laser Focus World (May 13 2008) Non-Medical Explore Article

   Imagine having the opportunity to stand before the Mona Lisa — sans her plexiglass cage, up close and personal, in the basement of the Louvre — and bathe her in coherent blue light, hoping to discover the secrets behind that infamous smile. What minerals and dyes might the pigment contain? What binding agents were used? How much does the final painting differ from the original sketch underneath, and how many ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Nicolaus Copernicus University   University of Michigan

6. National Physical Laboratory purchases OCT scanner from Michelson Diagnostics

   Laser Focus World (Apr 30 2008) Explore Article

   April 30, 2008, Kent, UK--The UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has taken delivery of a state-of-the-art optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanner ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Michelson Diagnostics   National Physical Laboratory   Pete H. Tomlins

7. Optoelectronic Applications: In Vivo Imaging: Microendoscopy takes a practical turn

   Laser Focus World (Jan 29 2008) Endoscopy , Microscopy Explore Article

   Discussions about how to motivate the medical community to embrace new technologies often focus on form and function-user-friendliness, compactness, ergonomics, speed, cost, and so on. For biomedical optics, these discussions further require demonstrating that a laser-based device can do something more-conventional approaches cannot, or at least do it better (such as laser refractive surgery, skin rejuvenation, hair removal, and optical coherence tomography). But with the advent of collaborative (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Cambridge Technology   OptiScan   Peter Delaney

8. OCT market to top $800 million by 2012

   Laser Focus World (Jan 29 2008) Funding Explore Article

   Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is fast becoming the most successful optics technology to date in the field of disease diagnostics. Invented in the early 1990s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) and first commercialized for medical applications by Carl Zeiss in 1996, OCT offers fast, high-resolution diagnostic images for a variety of clinical applications, plus the potential to supplant existing imaging modalities in some medical disciplines. According to ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   LightLab Imaging   Massachusetts Institute of Technology   Scott Huennekens

9. Despite economic uncertainty, LFW Marketplace Seminar predicts ...

   Laser Focus World (Jan 22 2008) Explore Article

   Greg Smolka described the dynamic optical coherence tomography (OCT) market, with some 19 companies marketing OCT systems since the launch of the first ... (Read Full Article)
   

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10. Innovation opens the door for next wave of success

    Laser Focus World (Jan 15 2008) Explore Article

    Last September at the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association’s (OIDA; Washington, D.C.) “Perspectives on the Optoelectronics Industry” forum in San Jose, CA, keynote speaker Henry Kressel of Warburg Pincus (New York, NY) noted that in today’s increasingly competitive global technology marketplace, innovation is critical to sustaining and stimulating growth. “Cross-fertilization in technology is a key driver behind innovation,” Kressel said. “And continuous innovation creates continuous (Read Full Article)
    

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11. Report identifies $200M OCT market

    Laser Focus World (Jan 15 2008) Funding Explore Article

    According to “Optical Coherence Tomography - Technology, Markets, and Applications: 2008-2012,” a market-research report from PennWell, publishers of Laser Focus World and BioOptics World, the global market for OCT systems is around $200 million, with an annual growth rate of 25%. This growth is expected to continue at a compound annual rate of 33.5%, topping $800 million by 2012. While ophthalmology is expected to remain the dominant application through 2012, ... (Read Full Article)
    

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12. EU-funded Uranus project showcases advances in fiber lasers

    Laser Focus World (Dec 27 2007) Explore Article

    ... even smaller nanotechnology systems and in demonstrating practical new applications such as optical coherence tomography, among many other applications. ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Mircea Guina   Oleg Okhotnikov   Tampere University of Technology

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