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For the past 20 years, Takeharu Etoh from Kinki University, Japan, has been developing high-speed video imaging systems. Adarsh Sandhu spoke to him about his latest creation, the one-million-frame-per-second In-Situ Storage Image Sensor camera.
Optical coherence tomography is rapidly becoming an important clinical tool, which provides high-resolution images that cannot be obtained by other means. Duncan Graham-Rowe spoke to a few of the companies developing the technology.
An innovative approach to making silicon solar cells more cost-effective and robust has now entered mass production. Nature Photonics took a trip to Kyoto, Japan, to find out more.
Analysing the spectral and temporal performance of lasers operating in the mid- and far-infrared is challenging. Now, electro–optic sampling appears to be a convenient solution. Nature Photonics spoke to Klaus Reimann from the Max-Born-Institut in Berlin about the technique.
The ability to make ever smaller and more sophisticated optical circuits for controlling light is now moving into a new dimension, below the wavelength of light.
Examples of structural phase changes abound in the natural world around us. But if we can exploit such changes on the nanoscale using light, new nanophotonics technology may be just around the corner.
Whether you are simulating a lens, an optical communications system or a car headlamp, optical software can help you reach the optimum design. Neil Savage takes a look at some of the latest packages on offer.
Semiconductor quantum dots that are engineered to have both fluorescent and paramagnetic properties offer great potential as biological probes for imaging cellular activity. However, before such probes can be used in vivo, several challenges need to be overcome.
An elegant technique that provides molecular imaging with simultaneous anatomical co-registration of internal organs has now been demonstrated on a mouse. Nature Photonics spoke to Elizabeth Hillman about her dynamic fluorescence molecular imaging technique.
Biophotonics shows great promise but to fulfil its true potential, biologists, physicists and engineers will need to work harder to understand each other.