Photonics Focus Magazine Vol. 3 Issue 1

January/February 2022 | Vol. 3 | Issue 1
The brain

In this issue of Photonics Focus, we examine multiple perspectives on photonics and the brain, including emerging clues that the brain and nervous system may also use light for information processing.

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Illuminating olfaction to explore brain function
Photonics can aid scientists as they probe how our sense of smell works, from the nose to complex structures inside the brain
Technology
Searching for the brain's quantum network
Researchers are starting to piece together tantalizing bits of evidence that the human nervous system uses light for information processing
Technology
Supersizing light-sheet microscopy
Combining imaging modalities is helping neuroscientists find new ways to see the brain and nervous system
Technology
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