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A proposed architecture, Netcast, would use light-based techniques to run complex machine-learning computations on smartphones, smart speakers and other low-power client devices.

A new projection-based additive manufacturing method uses blue and red lasers to quickly create high-resolution micrometer-sized objects.

Scientists and clinicians have long believed that visualizing structural changes in the nucleus of cancer cells would unlock vital clues about how the disease first forms. This information could provide the ability to track where and how cancer is progressing to plan its successful treatment. Traditional microscopy methods have fallen short in revealing these details because the microscope’s inherent resolution limit only allows the imaging of general structural changes, as opposed to resolving their point of origin. Finding fluorescent dyes that illuminate abnormalities, such as aggregated proteins, at the single-molecule level and effectively target their spatial distribution has also not been easy. Innovations in superresolution...

System could lower the cost of making metalenses and radiation absorbers.

As part of SPIE Photonics West 2023, which will take place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, the BiOS Expo will run the weekend of Jan. 28-29. The exhibition will include dozens of companies showcasing new photonic system components and the latest adaptations for optical technologies in medicine and the life sciences. BiOS Hot Topics sessions will cover image-guided autonomous robotic surgery, the latest illumination source to be utilized in optical coherence tomography, and several other innovations.


An exhibitor at the 2022 SPIE BiOS Expo discusses the components used in his company’s optical systems. Courtesy of SPIE.
Sergio Fantini of Tufts University and Paola Taroni of Politecnico di Milano will chair the BiOS...