A research team has developed a small optical lens, only a few millimeters in size, whose refractive behavior changes in the presence of gas. This 'intelligent' behavior of the micro-lens is enabled ...

Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...

(Nanowerk News) After the synchrotrons of the fourth generation were invented (these are particle accelerators, which are, in fact, giant research facilities), there was an urgent need for a ...

Micro-lens machinists Polina Medvedskaya and Ivan Lyatun. (Courtesy: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University) An international team of researchers has produced a stack of diamond micro-lenses precise ...

Researchers from the University of Jena, Germany, have developed an optical lens just a few millimeters in size whose light refraction behavior changes when gas is present. As the researchers report ...

Perhaps above all else, the smartphone camera triumphs for capturing moments with our friends and families. With the simplest of additions, though, our phones can be used for capturing a world so ...

Developments in the manufacture of polymer micro optics are helping optical designers to meet the exacting tolerances that are required for miniaturized optical components and subsystems. Heidi Hall ...