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Making Visible What the Human Eye Can't See - Hyperspectral Imaging

Imagine a pen-sized device to check your skin for melanoma. You skim the surface of your skin, and, if necessary, the pen advises you to see your physician to have a closer look at a certain spot.

From IMEC 21 Jun 2010

Imec Demonstrates Integrated Electrical Sources of Surface Plasmons

Imec has fabricated electrical sources of surface plasmons, based on integrating light emitting diodes with metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguides. These sources, together with earlier work demonstrating plasmon detectors, are a prerequisite for making an interface between electronics and plasmonic circuits.

From IMEC 21 Jun 2010

Concept that Allows Transmission of Alphanumeric Information in the Form of Light Pulses

We currently transmit information electronically; in the future we will most likely use photons. However, these are not the only alternatives. Information can also be transmitted by means of chemical reactions. George M. Whitesides and his colleagues at Harvard University in Cambridge have now developed a concept that allows transmission of alphanumeric information in the form of light pulses with no electricity: the "infofuse".

21 Jun 2010

New Phase Masks from Ibsen for 800 nm TE Illumination

Ibsen has introduced a new Phase mask product: Phase masks for 800 nm fs inscription.

19 Jun 2010

Physicists Bring Silicon Chips Closer to Performing All-Optical Computing

Physicists at the University of Sydney have brought silicon chips closer to performing all-optical computing and information processing that could overcome the speed limitations intrinsic to electronics, with the first report published of an on-chip all-optical temporal integrator in Nature Communications today.

18 Jun 2010