Brown convenes scholars to envision the future of home-based health tech
On Feb. 17 and 18, Brown University hosted a workshop to explore the technological challenges and opportunities presented by this massive shift to home-based care. Titled Home Health Technologies in...
View ArticleRutendo Jakachira Awarded Optica Foundation Amplify Scholarship for Study of...
Rutendo Jakachira, a second-year Ph.D. student in Brown University’s Department of Physics, has received an inaugural Optica Foundation Amplify Scholarship. Jakachira was one of only fifteen students...
View ArticleOur pulse oximeter work got cited in Politico article titled ‘Flawed oxygen...
Pulse oximeters can overestimate blood oxygen in people with dark skin. Rutendo Jakachira, a PhD student in our lab, aims to use a single wavelength of light to bypass the skin. Recently her work got...
View ArticleProfessor Toussaint organized the second in a series of Home Health...
An interdisciplinary group of experts came together at Brown University for the second in a series of Home Health Technologies in 2032 meetings, namely Workshop 2: Healthcare Technologies in the Living...
View ArticleOur pulse oximeter work got reported by Boston Globe
Our pulse oximetry work that aims to take racial bias out of oxygen readings by using a single wavelength of light that bypasses the skin is reported by Boston Globe, titled ‘A blood-oxygen detector...
View ArticleOur work on pulse oximeter was spotlighted by National Public Radio
The NPR news reported our work in pulse oximeter and the article together with an audio could be found here: ‘When it comes to darker skin, pulse oximeters fall short‘. The article showed our opinion...
View ArticleOur optical coherence conversion work was highlighted in the Editor’s Pick...
Our recent tutorial on reversible optical coherence conversion was highlighted in the Editor’s Pick collection in Journal of Optics! This work introduces the concept and experimentation of reversible...
View ArticleOur TPL real-time monitoring work is featured on Optica’s front page
Jillian Sun’s work presents a new way to monitor two-photon lithography nanoscale fabrication could help improve the accuracy and efficiency of creating 3D engineered tissue scaffolds, according to a...
View ArticleOur work on Interferometry was published in Optica
When using the Space-Time light sheet, the interferometer exhibits 23% higher phase stability compared to the Gaussian light sheet (GLS), and 80% higher stability when compared to the Gaussian beam...
View ArticleKrishangi Krishna’s poster took second place at Boston Photonics Day
Traditional optical tweezers rely on the use of continuous-wave laser sources with moderate to high optical powers, leading to unwanted thermal effects. Here, we demonstrate that a femtosecond laser...
View ArticleJillian’s Work on Two-Photon Polymerization was Accepted by Optics Express
Two-photon polymerization (TPP) is an advanced 3D fabrication technique capable of creating features with submicron precision. A primary challenge in TPP lies in the facile and accurate...
View ArticleProfessor Toussaint is Lead Author for the Optics Express Special Feature:...
The significant underrepresentation of Blacks in optics and photonics with respect to authors, invited speakers, conference chairs, reviewers, associate editors and editors in chiefs of Optica’s...
View ArticleProfessor Toussaint was a speaker at The National Academies of Sciences,...
This was the third meeting of the Committee on the Use of Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Research. The committee held a public workshop with invited speakers to explore different research contexts in...
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