Therapeutic Lasers and Optical Diagnostic Technology in Dentistry

OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES PROVIDE PAINLESS PROGRESS IN DENTAL DISEASE PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT.

by Daniel Fried

Laser Opto-Acoustic Imaging: Let There Be Light That Sounds!

Ultrasonic imaging is versatile, noninvasive, portable, relatively inexpensive, and is second only to X-ray in annual procedural volume. Optical imaging continues to search for an identity in the medical arena. Opto-acoustic tomography combines the merits and most compelling features of both technologies.

by Howard Nathel

Optical Tools Offer Minimally Invasive Medical Diagnostics

Optical imaging and spectroscopy can be applied to a wide variety of medial diagnostic tests, including screening for early signs of cancer.

by Yvonne Carts-Powell

The van Cittert-Zernike Theorem

Our goal is to present a simple derivation of the van Cittert-Zernike theorem without invoking the theories of probability and stochastic processes. This is possible because most sources of practical interest are ergodic, meaning that time-averaging over a typical waveform emanated by the source yields statistical information about the source's inherently random radiation processes. We shall make exclusive use of time-averaging to derive the degree of coherence of a pair of points within the field of an extended, quasi-monochromatic, incoherent source.

by Masud Mansuripur

High-NA Pickup Objective for High-Density Media

In 1967 Duguay and Rentzepis suggested the possibility of producing population inversions at short wavelengths by x-ray photoionization of inner-shell p-electrons in atomic species. Instead, the present work uses inner-shell d-electron removal (which has a larger cross section) and improves the pumping efficiency to a specific state by concentrating on species with closed outer shells. The concept of efficient broadband pumping with laser-produced plasmas, as proposed by Harris et al. and demonstrated by Caro et al. at Stanford University, to produce metastable states was also incorporated into this work.

by W. T. Silfvast, O. R. Wood II, J. J Macklin, and H. Lundberg