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    Detectors & Imaging

    Full-color 3D layered holographic images via iPhone?

    Sally Cole Johnson
    May 8, 2024
    Researchers in Japan devise a three-dimensional (3D) full-color display method that relies on an iPhone, rather than a laser, to create holographic images—and it may prove useful...

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    Bio&Life Sciences

    PRM-SRS microscopy platform distinguishes specific lipid types

    Justine Murphy
    May 7, 2024
    A Raman microscopy-based imaging approach could crack the long-elusive code of lipids, their subtypes, and the key roles they play in human health, aging, and disease.
    (Photo credit: Besim Mazhiqi, PHoQS, Paderborn University)
    Test & Measurement

    New tool determines characteristics of light-based quantum states

    Sally Cole Johnson
    May 6, 2024
    Researchers develop a technique to measure the quantum mechanical properties of electromagnetic fields at the single-photon level.
    (Courtesy of Albrecht Stroh, University Medical Center Mainz and Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research)
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    Three-photon microscopy comes of age

    Lukas Kontenis
    May 3, 2024
    How does three-photon microscopy stack up against two-photon microscopy?

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    Photonics Hot List: May 3, 2024

    Justine Murphy
    May 3, 2024
    In this episode: cork proves effective for oil clean-up, synthetic goosebumps find practical apps, and a team creates a first-of-its-kind metafluid.
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    Photonics Hot List: April 26, 2024

    Justine Murphy
    April 26, 2024
    In this episode: a new LiDAR system boosts airborne apps, an optic-involved setup eyes concrete structures, and laser-driven fusion could lead to cleaner energy sources.
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    Photonics Hot List: April 19, 2024

    Justine Murphy
    April 19, 2024
    In this episode: a camera setup makes the vine to wine process simpler, a spectroscopy-based system IDs gases and chemicals, and a phase imaging approach images in unstable, dark...

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