February 20, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - Special Eyes Optical has published a new article titled "High-Index Lenses for ...

Although manufacturers are constantly trying to make smartphones thinner and lighter, they're limited by the phones' curved glass camera lenses. Now, however, researchers have developed a flat lens ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Researchers at The University of Utah have come up with a lens that’s thinner than a human hair. The work on the ultra-thin lens started about a year and a half ago. Researchers say ...

In recent years, the world of optics has undergone a major shift. New research shows how light can be bent, focused, and even changed in color using structures so small they’re invisible to the eye.

WASHINGTON—Researchers have developed a thin lens with a continuously tunable focal length. The new lens could one day make visual fatigue from augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) devices a thing of ...

A proper everyday augmented reality experience is a long way off, but at CES 2023, an optics company called Lumus may just be offering a glimpse of what mainstream AR could look like. And the emphasis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists in Switzerland have developed an ultra-thin metalens that converts invisible infrared light into visible light by ...

Infrared light passes through the metal lens and is converted into violet light and focused in a focal point due to the material and the special surface structures—enlarged in the magnifying glass.

Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded by NASA and DARPA.