Shortly after lasers were first developed in the 1960s, LiDAR—whose name originated as a combination of “light” and “radar” – capitalized on the newly unique precision they offered for measuring...
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Power To The Pixel
LED chips play many important parts in information display technology, including supplying illumination for LCDs. They are the bright, compact subpixels of digital signboards and video walls that increasingly dominate...
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Tiny “Motors” Are Driven By Light
Science fiction is full of fanciful devices that allow light to interact forcefully with matter, from light sabers to photon-drive rockets. In recent years, science has begun to catch up;...
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Modulating Speckle For Better OCT Imaging
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has become invaluable to medical imaging over the past quarter century – the same length of time that scientists have been wrestling with the technique’s inherent...
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Light-Matter Interaction In Single Layer Of Atoms
A new and more efficient way of detecting light and matter interactions at the atomic level has been discovered that could lead to advances in the emerging field of two-dimensional...
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- March 30, 2018 on Point-of-Care Optical Device Could Improve Thyroid Cancer Screening