FOCUS PHOTONICS WEST
Prism Awards recognise photonic innovation
Nine new photonics products with capabilities ranging from drug identification for targeting specific diseases, to enhanced portable imaging and sensing tools, and 3D printing of precision glass, have been named winners of the 2016 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation. The awards were presented on 17 February during SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco. ‘This year’s winning products ingeniously deploy key photonics technologies such as quantum cascade and terahertz lasers, infrared sensing, and 3D printing, placing powerful new capabilities in the hands of users,’ said SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs. ‘They address pressing issues such as the world’s need for sustainable energy and light, and clinicians’ needs for quickly identifying the best drugs to target challenging diseases, in time to save lives and staunch outbreaks before they become epidemics.’ Among the winners were: Biodesy
(USA), for its Delta ultrafast mode- locked Ti:S laser for protein analysis; Spectral Engines (Finland), for its wireless infrared spectrometer; Dolby, Christie, and Necsel (USA), for their Dolby vision cinema laser projector; First Light Imaging (France), for its SWIR camera; and LightFab (Germany), for its technology enabling 3D structures in glasses, making possible the mass production of micro 3D glass for fields such as optics.
OCT imaging tech on show at Bios O
ptical coherence tomography (OCT) was one of the main themes at Bios, the biomedical optics, biophotonics, and
imaging conference, which took place from 13 to 14 February in San Francisco as part of SPIE Photonics West.
Healthcare solutions using OCT received research awards, while laser sources, fibres and complete systems for OCT imaging were on display at the trade fair. The winners of the SPIE Translational Research virtual symposium awards, looking at the translation of biophotonics research into clinical practice, included: Oscar Carrasco- Zevallos (Duke University), for developing a 4D microscope integrated with OCT to guide retinal surgery; and Hao Zhang, director of the Functional Optical Imaging Lab at Northwestern University, who developed a new OCT technology to quantify retinal oxygen metabolism in vivo. On the trade show floor, Nishant Mohan from
Wasatch Photonics said that OCT is benefiting from a positive cycle: improved funding has meant that the technology is performing better in clinical trials, which in turn leads to more funding opportunities. OptoRes, a company spun-out from the Chair of Biomolecular Optics (BMO) at the University of Munich, was showcasing its OMES Megahertz OCT system. OMES combines a Fourier-domain
Electro Optics’ Greg Blackman has his finger imaged by OptoRes’ OMES OCT system
mode-locking (FDML) swept laser and GPU processing into a research OCT system. FDML is a laser operation scheme, whereby the cavity round-trip time is synchronised to the wavelength-tunable filter driving signal. This technology means the system can scan much faster – OMES has speeds greater than 1.5MHz and scans more than 20 OCT volumes per second to provide 4D video rates. Wasatch Photonics had two of its OCT systems at the show, one 800nm system for high-resolution imaging, and a 1,300nm probe for penetrating deeper into tissue. The WP OCT 1,300nm system can achieve an imaging depth of up to 12mm. Thorlabs, NuView and Santec and were among other exhibitors demonstrating components and systems for OCT imaging.
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Jessica Rowbury
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