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  • Spotlight Summary by Sara S. Patterson

    • The Verriest Lecture: Pathways to color in the eye and brain
    • In 2007, Paul Martin co-authored a seminal review called the “Unsolved Mystery of Vision” which presented mammalian vision as a “field that is stuck”. Martin is uniquely qualified to make such a...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 40(3) V1-V10 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Martin Bernier

    • All-fiber 3.4-W 2.8-µm ultra-short pulse MOPA system seeded by the soliton self-frequency shift of 2-µm pulses
    • Robust femtosecond laser sources operating in the mid-infrared promise major technological advances due to their unique properties. They are being considered for use as frequency combs in molecular spectroscopy, in...
    • Opt. Lett. 48(7) 1790-1793 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary by Robert Zawadzki

    • Measuring red blood cell shape in the human retina
    • In vivo observations of red blood cell deformations while traversing the individual retinal capillaries in the human eye becomes reality thanks to recent work published by Phillip Bedggood, Yifu Ding, and Andrew Metha....
    • Opt. Lett. 48(7) 1554-1557 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Frédéric Leblond

    • Stokes shift spectroscopy and machine learning for label-free human prostate cancer detection
    • The authors of this Optics Letters article present a proof-of-principle study for the detection of prostate cancer tissue using an all-optical approach. The technique is based on the detection of fluorescence...
    • Opt. Lett. 48(4) 936-939 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Jack Smith

    • Foundry manufacturing of tight-confinement, dispersion-engineered, ultralow-loss silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits
    • This work presents an excellent example of the scaling up of foundry silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits (PICs), fabricated to a high specification and with high yield. Such devices constitute a crucial part of...
    • Photon. Res. 11(4) 558-568 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Martin Bernier

    • All-fiber 3.4-W 2.8-µm ultra-short pulse MOPA system seeded by the soliton self-frequency shift of 2-µm pulses
    • Robust femtosecond laser sources operating in the mid-infrared promise major technological advances due to their unique properties. They are being considered for use as frequency combs in molecular spectroscopy, in...
    • Opt. Lett. 48(7) 1790-1793 (2023) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

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