Freeform optical system design and metrology represent a paradigm shift in the development of imaging and sensing technologies. By allowing optical surfaces to depart from traditional rotational ...

Freeform optics bring precision optical systems into a new ear, delivering superior imaging in compact packages, or functions otherwise impossible. Surfaces that are axially unbalanced or have no axis ...

The Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology is pleased to announce that this week’s seminar will be presented by Derek Kopon from MIT Lincoln Laboratory on Thursday, Oct. 19 at 1 p.m. in ...

Conventional telescopes are limited in detecting low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, which are essential for studying galaxy evolution. Now, researchers have developed a new telescope system ...

A freeform optical component is not symmetric around its optical axis. It provides some attractive features to optical designers to correct multiple aberrations with fewer optical surfaces, and make ...

New optical systems of the kinds required for augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) displays are likely to exploit developments in novel components such as metasurfaces and freeform optics, and ...

Last fall we told you about 3D-printed telescope parts -- except, of course, for the mirror. But that may not be true much longer. New telescope mirror designs from NASA for space-based instruments ...

Today, Tecno held the 5th edition of the Tecno Future Lens event, which aims to introduce the company’s imaging innovations to the media. The highlights this year are Dual-Mirror Reflect Telephoto and ...

Conventional telescopes are limited in detecting low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, which are essential for studying galaxy evolution. Now, researchers have developed a new telescope system ...