Multimedia presentations: Hot Topics and plenary talks from SPIE Photonics West 2014
Covering a variety of topics, these presentations by innovators in optics and photonics are a highlight of the symposium.
BiOS Hot Topics
The perennially popular BiOS Hot Topics session at Photonics West 2014 drew a standing-room-only crowd once again, eager to hear the latest news in biomedical optics and biophontonics in a series of brief talks.
Diffuse Optical Methods for Assessing Breast Cancer Chemotherapy
Bruce Tromberg
Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic (USA)
Clinical Translation in OCT: Role of Research, Funding, and Entrepreneurism
Eric Swanson
OCT News (USA)
Optical Spectroscopy and Tomography of Oxygen Delivery: From Macro to Micro and Back
David Boas
Massachusetts General Hospital(USA)
Photoacoustic Tomography: Ultrasonically Beating Optical Diffusion and Diffraction
Lihong Wang
Washington Univ. in St. Louis (USA)
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Single-cell Photonic Nanocavity Probes
Gary Shambat
Stanford Univ. (USA)
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New Small Quantum Dots for Neuroscience
Paul Selvin
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Journey into the Brain: from Single Synapse to Whole Brain Anatomy by Correlative Microscopy
Francesco Pavone
European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) (Italy)
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Scanning Fiber Endoscopy -- Multimodes of Guided Intervention
Eric Seibel
Univ. of Washington
Plenary Sessions
Plenary sessions at Photonics West featured discussions on advances in optics and photonics technologies, such as biochip micromachining, laser surgery, and silicon photonics.
OPTO Plenary Session
The Previously Unbelievable Performance of Ultrafast Thin Disk Lasers
Ursula Keller
ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
LASE Plenary Sessions
Photonics21 and the Perspectives from the European Photonics Industry
Michael Mertin
JENOPTIK AG (Germany)
Femtosecond Laser 3D Micromachining and its Applications to Biochip Fabrication
Koji Sugioka
RIKEN (Japan)
A New Plasmonics Enhanced Ultrafast Laser Multi-Nanoscapel
Michel Meunier
Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada)
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