SPIE DCS 2017 panel session on miniaturized mobile spectrometers sees early applications in gas pipelines shifting to conflict zones in the future.

UK project by Leicester University and aerial map firm Bluesky reveals lethal infections P. ramorum fungus, Dutch Elm disease and Sudden Oak Death.

Swiss NewbornCare project aims to replace skin sensors, reducing false alarms and easing discomfort.

Optical thin-film technology initially developed for armored vehicles protects thermal cameras from laser strikes.

Volume producer of microbolometer devices says technology will add flexibility to low-cost thermal imaging product design.

Concept Laser believes implants from its LaserCUSING platform can meet multiple different needs.

Germany-based laser systems companies dominate; annual market tipped to surpass $6 million by the mid-2020s.

Clinical study using Mauna Kea endomicroscopy suggests patients could be diagnosed earlier.

Defence Science and Technology Laboratory hoping to deliver demonstrator system by 2019.

Beam-combined fiber laser is the most powerful laser of its type yet demonstrated; now to be truck-mounted.

Laser-based system already used by Monterey Bay aquarium to investigate at depths of nearly 3 km.

Industry association SEMI says equipment bookings jumped 24% on 2015 figure, as chip makers report EUV lithography progress.