Lasers, Optics & Photonics

New Technique Generates 3D Images of Bacteria for Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing

Medgadget: Researchers at the University of Connecticut have developed a highly sensitive imaging sensor that can rapidly and accurately monitor bacterial growth. The technique involves shining laser light through…

NASA Tries to Save Hubble, Again

Wired: The Hubble Space telescope, one of the most famous telescopes of the 20th and 21st centuries, has faltered once again. After a computer hardware problem arose in late October, NASA engineers put Hubble into a coma, suspending its science operations as they carefully attempt to bring its systems…

Photonic Crystal Microscope Quickly Detects Biomarkers for P-O-C Diagnostics

Photonics.com: A compact photonic resonator absorption microscopy (PRAM) instrument, developed by a team at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, provides fast, selective detection of cancer biomarkers for diagnostics at…

You Can Measure This Fundamental Quantum Constant Using LEDs

Wired: Planck’s constant is one of the fundamental constants that sets up all the “rules” for how things work in our universe. (It’s named after the theoretical physicist Max Planck, who is best known for his work on quantized energy…