A thin, high-resolution lens After the meeting, I returned to the University of Arizona and decided to explore whether modern technology could produce diffractive lenses with better image quality.

Amidst the recent celebration of the James Webb Space Telescope's first anniversary of its space exploration, there are claims from an astrobiologist that their team is already developing a better ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Twelve years ago at the AECOS meeting, a program chair asked the audience if in 10 years we would be able to ...

(Nanowerk News) In a new study, researchers have shown that 3D printing can be used to make highly precise and complex miniature lenses with sizes of just a few microns. The microlenses can be used to ...

Light field displays, in which careful manipulation of light rays by suitable optical elements produces a 3D image in space without the need for a viewer to wear any special glasses, are expected to ...

Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets outside of the solar system to date. The grand question is whether any of these planets are home to life. To find the answer, astronomers will ...

The endeavor to detect life on exoplanets is presently constrained by the limitations and logistical complexities inherent in building larger, more sensitive mirror-based space telescopes. A novel ...