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Physics World Focus on Optics & Photonics 2017

Physics World Focus on Optics & Photonics 2017

In this Physics World Focus, academic physicist Gail McConnell describes how she and members of her lab are helping a spin-out firm commercialize its novel biomedical imaging technology. Meanwhile, Kate Bechtel explains how optical glucose sensors (or rather, the lack of them) shows what can happen when researchers and commercializers talk past each other. The issue also explores how established optics firms sometimes nurture new ones – and how they may even band together with their competitors in “clusters” to achieve common goals.

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