Lens technologies have advanced across all scales, from digital cameras and high bandwidth in fiber optics to the LIGO lab instruments. Now, a new lens technology that could be produced using standard computer-chip technology ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 20, 2018
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Last summer, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) announced a new, flat lens that could focus light with high efficiency within the visible spectrum. The lens used an ...
Nanophysics
Feb 8, 2017
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Researchers have created a new optical lens that is flat, rather than curved like traditional glass lenses. The unique optical properties available from the flat lens could help reduce the size of computer hard drives and ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 8, 2016
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Imagine digital cameras or smartphones without the bulky lenses or eyeglasses with lenses that are paper thin.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 12, 2016
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Most lenses are, by definition, curved. After all, they are named for their resemblance to lentils, and a glass lens made flat is just a window with no special powers. But a new type of lens created at the Harvard School ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 19, 2015
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For the first time, scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a new type of lens that bends and focuses ultraviolet (UV) light in such an unusual way that it can create ghostly, ...
General Physics
May 24, 2013
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A team of researchers, including a University of British Columbia engineer have made a breakthrough utilizing spray-on technology that could revolutionize the way optical lenses are made and used.
General Physics
May 23, 2013
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(Phys.org)—August 23, 2012 – Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created an ultrathin, flat lens that focuses light without imparting the distortions of conventional ...
General Physics
Aug 24, 2012
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