Bionic optical sensor fits on a smartphone and is capable of hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging
New Microscopy Method with Nanometer Resolution
MINSTED resolves fluorescent molecules with resolution at the nanometer scale
A New Optical Sensor for Acceleration
The optomechanical accelerometer could be used as a portable, high-accuracy reference device
Ultrabright Dots See Beyond Skin Deep
New polymer dots can produce low-noise images with single-molecule sensitivity
A Sharper Look at Semiconductors
Extreme ultraviolet coherence tomography unveils the interior of materials with nanometer precision
Trapping Light Without Back Reflections
A new technique for suppressing back reflections is leading to better signal quality for sensing and information technology
A New Method of Optical Distance Measurement
Using methods from quantum information theory to overcome the resolution limit
New Method for Fluorescence Microscopy
A fluorescence lifetime microscopy technique uses frequency combs and no mechanical parts to observe dynamic biological phenomena