Saturday, February 21, 2015

This is going to revolutionize optics...

This is going to revolutionize optics...  The first applications mentioned are for cameras, but there's much, much more potential.  Any optical device that uses lenses today will be lighter and cheaper using these meta-materials.  Because they're made using silicon, the manufacturing techniques developed for integrated circuits apply – and that means they can be cheaply mass-manufactured.  There are obvious applications not only in cameras, but in telescopes, binoculars, microscopes, and so on.  Furthermore, the light weight enables some further applications, including (especially) in stabilization: light-weight lenses are much easier to move quickly, which is at the core of how image stabilization systems work.

I'd be willing to bet that this development transforms the world of optics as fundamentally as digital cameras have transformed photography...

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