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 ...

This article describes a six-inch wafer inspection microscope that provides automated, reproducible differential interference contrast (DIC) imaging, regardless of the user’s skill level. Wafer ...

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 ...

Fluorescence microscopy techniques are powerful tools for probing very small signals and revealing three-dimensional (3D) structural and functional properties of biological samples with high ...

Biologists are very interested in how proteins, lipids and other compounds are organized and interact in systems. Very few organizational details can be gained by using standard transmission-based ...

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 ...