Chromatic aberration supressed with thin lens
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:19 pm
Hi,
New research published by the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences shows that a thin planar lens can be made to compensate for chromatic aberration in optical systems.
This invention potentially means complex achromatic lens systems can be made much lighter and more compact.
For instance the bulky, spaced achromatic doublet lenses now being proposed for the OSVR head-mounted display could be made with one thin lens.
Obviously, for head-mounted and near-eye viewing applications, this could mean a revolutionary simplification of the optics now being used.
Article is here at Physorg: http://phys.org/news/2015-02-captured-u ... -lens.html
Thanks.
New research published by the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences shows that a thin planar lens can be made to compensate for chromatic aberration in optical systems.
This invention potentially means complex achromatic lens systems can be made much lighter and more compact.
For instance the bulky, spaced achromatic doublet lenses now being proposed for the OSVR head-mounted display could be made with one thin lens.
Obviously, for head-mounted and near-eye viewing applications, this could mean a revolutionary simplification of the optics now being used.
Article is here at Physorg: http://phys.org/news/2015-02-captured-u ... -lens.html
Thanks.