WASHINGTON – The Optica Foundation today issued details on the healthcare work being funded by its 20 th Anniversary Challenge. This newly funded research will address the potential of Differential ...

Optica Foundation recipients’ work in 3-D Microparticle Imaging, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and Synthetic Wavelength Holography (SWH) may lead to more efficient, cost-effective systems Optica ...

The invention that first enabled researchers to see clear images of living cells was the phase-contrast microscope, which won its inventor, Frits Zernike, a Nobel Prize in 1932. Prior to Zernike's ...

A miniaturized implantable optical device, which is thin enough to lie within the subdural space of a primate brain, can be created using an integrated circuit that provides both fluorescence imaging ...

The use of high-resolution bright-field microscopy is essential for cellular-scale biological research, but this technique has limitations due to low image contrast. Using dyes on the sample can ...

Light microscopy is a key tool that scientists use to image cells, organelles, subcellular structures, and molecules such as proteins and nucleic acids. Because visible light leaves biological ...