Utilised in everyday life, from the mouse that you are currently navigating your computer with to endoscopes and life-saving diagnostic tests in healthcare all use miniature optics lenses. Even in the ...

Forvia has been granted a patent for a process to manufacture optical lenses from glass. The method involves tempering a glass blank, press-molding it between molds to form the lens, and using an ...

There are some types of projects that we see quite often here on Hackaday; 3D Printers, Development Boards and Video Game Hardware to name a few. Once in a while we see an optics-based project but ...

In the age of highly produced and dramatic videos, sometimes it's nice to have something simple. This video of the Sigma lens ...

Threading the needle: a tiny lens on the tip of an optical fibre. (Courtesy: University of Stuttgart) A new method for 3D-printing micro-sized, high-quality compound lenses directly onto image sensors ...

Figure 1 | Schematic and demonstration of the meta-aspheric lens. a, Illustration of the MAL computational imaging system, comprising a hybrid optical module and a computational processing module. b, ...

As the final step in the production process, inspection is of critical importance to the manufacturing industry. Manufacturers generally allot adequate staff resources to perform inspection for the ...

Researchers have come up with an economical one-step process to coat contact lenses with an antimicrobial film (Biomacromolecules 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.5b00359). The coating could cut the risk ...

Luxexcel, the Eindhoven-based company whose equipment is used to 3D-print optical components, has signed a deal with lens distributor Optiswiss targeting both the emerging field of augmented reality ...

As a leading optical design company, Shanghai Optics goes above and beyond to walk you through every step of our manufacturing process. Using the advanced in-house manufacturing equipment and most ...