Devices developed by Hong Kong group generate images with varying polarization, enabling on-chip optical encryption.

University of Osaka technique visualizes cell dynamics during transient processes.

Micrometer-sized source has “special design” that minimises light leakage.

Ultrabroadband IR frequency comb could be used for detection in portable spectrometers.

New pipeline speeds up image processing across multiple staining technologies.

Harvard SEAS develops digital-to-analog converter bridging electronics and photonics.

Design makes light travel in a circle so it can interact multiple times with target.

Limiting Auger recombination enables “record” quasi-continuous wave laser output.

…and portable spectroscopy enables detection of vaginal microbes.

Short pulses, extreme peaks, and precise wave forms enable investigation of rapid nature processes.

Described as “significant progress in making quantum dots more practical for real applications”.

Fluorescence lifetime method characterizes thousands of molecules quickly and simultaneously.