Optics

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Unlimited Resolution Optical Microscopy

The development of unlimited resolution imaging systems based on the fundamentally odd-symmetric polarization topology which breaks the 145-year-old law of Abbe’s...

Photonic Resonator Outcoupler Microscopy (PROM)

A novel label-free microscopy modality that quantitatively measures the scatter-induced changes in reflected intensity from a photonic crystal biosensor surface to reveal...

Photonic Resonator Absorption Microscopy (PRAM)

A novel label-free microscopy modality that quantitatively measures the scatter-induced changes in reflected intensity from a photonic crystal biosensor surface to reveal...

Multi-Color Discrete Infrared Spectroscopy

Dr. Rohit Bhargava and graduate student Kevin Yeh have developed a new method and device for infrared (IR) spectroscopy. The invention overcomes current limitations in...

Visualizable Detection of Nanoscale Perturbations

This technology adapts conventional optical microscopes for visualizable detection and sensing in nanometric volumes. Conversion is fast and low cost, and the resulting...

Vibrational Circular Dichroism Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Microscope

Dr. Bhargava has developed a new method and device for imaging with a discrete frequency infrared spectroscopic microscope. Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) is useful...

Simultaneous 4-phase shifted full field optical coherence microscopy

Professor Stephen Boppart and researchers from the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology have developed a method and apparatus for capturing four...

Optical phantom for multimodal optical instruments using fluorescent nanodiamonds

Dr. Boppart has created a new manner of calibrating multimodal optical instruments. Unlike prior solutions, such as fluorescent beads, this invention does not bleach and...

Computational Single Photon Counting for Fast Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy

Dr. Stephen Boppart and his research group have developed a novel way to time-tag and count photons for Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM) in real-time at a...

Nanoscale Infrared Absorption Tomography

A nanoscale infrared absorption tomography method. using AFM-IR measurements that contain infrared absorption signal in two spatial dimensions and a third pulsing...

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