Scientists demonstrate low-cost, high-quality lenses for super-resolution microscopy

Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...
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Standard 3D printers enable super-resolution microscopy with custom optics under $1

Researchers have demonstrated that consumer-grade 3D printers and inexpensive materials can produce advanced optical ...
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University of Strathclyde creates high-performance lenses from consumer 3D-printers

A project at the University of Strathclyde has now shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical components that enable super-resolution ...
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This new imaging technology breaks the rules of optics

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...
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Ultra-Thin Camera Without Lenses uses optical phased array

Caltech engineers have developed a new camera design that replaces the lenses with an ultra-thin optical phased array (OPA). The OPA does computationally what lenses do using large pieces of glass: it ...
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Coherent Introduces Next-Gen 2D Glass Molded Lens Array

SAXONBURG, Pa., Sept. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherent Corp. (COHR), a global leader in photonics, today announced the development of a high-precision molded 2D lens array leveraging its state-of ...
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Polymer micro optics: because size matters

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 ...

Neutral-atom arrays, a rapidly emerging quantum computing platform, get a boost from researchers

For quantum computers to outperform their classical counterparts, they need more quantum bits, or qubits. State-of-the-art ...