July 2014
Awesome Optics at AIO
The morning session of Day 4 - Awesome Optical Materials - was opened by Dr. Tigran Galstian (Universite Laval & LensVector). Tigran presented a liquid crystal-based motion-less adaptive optical system. This cost-effective approach has been successfully applied to mobile phone camera technology to enable autofocus, with future applications in LED lighting and...
Added: 24 July 2014
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Day 3 at Applied Industrial Optics 2014
Day 3 of AIO 2014 was action-packed with two panel sessions and a joint session with the ...
Added: 17 July 2014
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Applied Industrial Optics 2014: Summary of Day 1
Day 1 of AIO 2014 kicked off at 8:30am with the first session - 'Far and Away We See You'. We heard from Dr Stewart Hager (Hager Environmental and Atmospheric Techno) about his work in replacing manned, single-line,...
Added: 15 July 2014
Applied Industrial Optics 2014: Highlights from Day 2
Day 2 of AIO 2014 opened with the Joint Plenary Session, featuring speakers from Applied Industrial Optics (AIO), Imaging Systems and Applications (IS), and Laser Applications to Chemical, Security and Environmental Analysis...
Added: 15 July 2014
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Light Enables Tomorrow’s Technologies
Living in a high-tech world, we don’t always stop to think about what enables us to video chat across the globe, detect cancer or even play an interactive video game. In all of these cases, a key enabler is photonics—applying light (photons) to advance technologies.
The Optical Society (...
Added: 14 July 2014
The Body Optic - Molecular Probes Save Lives
Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in the world; in fact, the American Cancer Society estimates 96,830 new cases of colorectal cancer cases in the United States for 2014 alone. Barratt’s Esophagus, which is strongly associated with esophageal...
Added: 01 July 2014
