{"id":200892,"date":"2024-12-06T14:26:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T20:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/microscopy-at-the-tip-of-a-hair-thin-optical-fiber-new-approach-pre-shapes-light-for-unprecedented-control"},"modified":"2024-12-06T14:26:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T20:26:52","slug":"microscopy-at-the-tip-of-a-hair-thin-optical-fiber-new-approach-pre-shapes-light-for-unprecedented-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/microscopy-at-the-tip-of-a-hair-thin-optical-fiber-new-approach-pre-shapes-light-for-unprecedented-control","title":{"rendered":"Microscopy at the tip of a hair-thin optical fiber: New approach pre-shapes light for unprecedented control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microscopy-at-the-tip-of-a-hair-thin-optical-fiber-new-approach-pre-shapes-light-for-unprecedented-control2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Adelaide, as part of an international team, have developed an approach that makes advanced microscopy possible through an optical fiber thinner than a human hair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecent advances in optics have made it possible to controllably deliver light through extremely thin optical fibers, but delivering more complicated light patterns that are needed to perform advanced microscopy has eluded researchers until now,\u201d said Dr. Ralf Mouthaan from the University of Adelaide\u2019s Center of Light for Life, who undertook the project.<\/p>\n<p>With a footprint far smaller than any other fiber imaging device, this will enable microscope images to be collected from previously inaccessible parts of the human body, while minimizing associated tissue damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Adelaide, as part of an international team, have developed an approach that makes advanced microscopy possible through an optical fiber thinner than a human hair. \u201cRecent advances in optics have made it possible to controllably deliver light through extremely thin optical fibers, but delivering more complicated light patterns that are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}