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Volume 1 Issue 9, September 2007

Mouse organs made visible by an all-optical technique

Cover design by Karen Moore

Letter by Hillman and Moore

Volume 1 Issue 9

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Editorial

  • Biophotonics shows great promise but to fulfil its true potential, biologists, physicists and engineers will need to work harder to understand each other.

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Commentary

  • Semiconductor quantum dots that are engineered to have both fluorescent and paramagnetic properties offer great potential as biological probes for imaging cellular activity. However, before such probes can be used in vivo, several challenges need to be overcome.

    • Rumiana Bakalova
    • Zhivko Zhelev
    • Iwao Kanno

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News & Views

  • The use of whispering-gallery-mode optical resonators has enabled the creation of a microwave receiver that is immune to electromagnetic attack.

    • Lute Maleki

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  • Lasers that are powered by sunlight alone could have a promising future thanks to an efficient and compact design that can scale to high output powers.

    • Oliver Graydon

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  • An elegant approach to imaging the interior organs of small animals with improved visibility and accuracy looks set to help drug development and disease research.

    • Samuel Achilefu

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  • The first OSA topical meeting in China was dedicated to optics on the nanoscale. Experts from all over the world gathered in Hangzhou and heard how this emerging technology could help healthcare, communications and energy generation.

    • Rachel Won

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  • Surface plasmons undergo ultrafast dynamics on the attosecond timescale. Probing these ultrabrief effects is notoriously difficult, but a new microscope could pave the way towards an understanding of these fields and, ultimately, control of them.

    • Mauro Nisoli

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Market Analysis

  • The medical sector is one of the fastest growing segments of the optics market. As companies look to expand their efforts in this area, better-than-average growth is expected over the coming decade.

    • Amber Jenkins

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Industry Perspective

  • The combination of nonlinear optics and photochemistry may soon be able to provide cataract patients with optimum long-term vision following surgery.

    • Jens Träger
    • Hee-Cheol Kim
    • Norbert Hampp

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Interview

  • Thanks to innovations in wireless, LED and CCD sensor technology, it is now possible to make a camera pill for patients to swallow. Adarsh Sandhu spoke to Olympus Medical Systems about their latest developments in endoscopy.

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Photonics at NPG

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Interview

  • An elegant technique that provides molecular imaging with simultaneous anatomical co-registration of internal organs has now been demonstrated on a mouse. Nature Photonics spoke to Elizabeth Hillman about her dynamic fluorescence molecular imaging technique.

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