Optical phantoms and tissue-mimicking materials have emerged as essential tools in the validation, calibration and optimisation of biomedical imaging systems. By replicating the optical and sometimes ...

Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...

Optical sensing technologies provide fast and robust methods for detecting, differentiating and quantifying targets from a variety of samples and even probing their molecular structure. Spectroscopic ...

SPIE Photonics West sees the global optics and photonics community come together to present and discuss the latest industry ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...

The microimager, composed of a dense array of flexible optical waveguides along an implantable thin-film shank, relays pixelized fluorescent images of protein-tagged neurons to the image sensor. The ...

The 22 award recipients represent wide range of stellar achievements across light-based technologies. For pioneering work in ...

The international optical and photonic components market reached over $300 billion in 2020. Optical processing starts with raw materials and finishes with finely crafted optical components. The ...

Researchers have developed an extremely thin, flexible imager that could be useful for noninvasively acquiring images from inside the body. The new technology could one day enable early and precise ...

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, awarded their Gold Medal to Maryellen Giger (pictured here with her team) for pioneering work in computer-aided diagnosis and image ...