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Tiny Black Holes Enable A New Type Of Photodetector For High Speed Data

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | April 7, 2017 at 12:02 am , by synadmn

Tiny “black holes” on a silicon wafer make for a new type of photodetector that could move more data at lower cost around the world or across a datacenter. The...

Photonic Crystal And Nanowire Combo Advances ‘Photonic Integration’

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | April 5, 2017 at 12:01 am , by synadmn

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Contrary to the tremendous success story of electronic integration, photonic integration is still in its infancy. One the most serious obstacles it faces is the need to use a variety...

Tiny Sensor Lays Groundwork For Precision X-rays Detection via Endoscopy

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | April 3, 2017 at 5:00 am , by synadmn

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Using a tiny device known as an optical antenna, researchers have created an X-ray sensor that is integrated onto the end of an optical fiber just a few tens of...

A Faster Single-pixel Camera

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | March 31, 2017 at 12:01 am , by synadmn

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Compressed sensing is an exciting new computational technique for extracting large amounts of information from a signal. In one high-profile demonstration, for instance, researchers at Rice University built a camera...

Optical Tool Monitors Brain’s Response to Pain

Posted in: Blog, Polymer Optics | March 29, 2017 at 12:02 am , by synadmn

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Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) — an optical imaging tool for monitoring regional blood flow and tissue oxygenation — is being explored as an option to track the brain’s response to acute...

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Tiny Black Holes Enable A New Type Of Photodetector For High Speed Data

Photonic Crystal And Nanowire Combo Advances ‘Photonic Integration’

Tiny Sensor Lays Groundwork For Precision X-rays Detection via Endoscopy

A Faster Single-pixel Camera

Optical Tool Monitors Brain’s Response to Pain

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