New Flat Lens Focuses Without Distortion 202
yahyamf writes "Applied physicists at Harvard have created an ultrathin, flat lens that focuses light without the distortions of conventional lenses. 'Our flat lens opens up a new type of technology,' says principal investigator Federico Capasso. 'We're presenting a new way of making lenses. Instead of creating phase delays as light propagates through the thickness of the material, you can create an instantaneous phase shift right at the surface of the lens. It's extremely exciting.'" And by "ultrathin," they mean it — 60 nanometers thin. The big advantage for this technology, aimed at telecommunications signals, is that "the flat lens eliminates optical aberrations such as the 'fish-eye' effect that results from conventional wide-angle lenses. Astigmatism and coma aberrations also do not occur with the flat lens, so the resulting image or signal is completely accurate and does not require any complex corrective techniques."
Really? (Score:3, Insightful)
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Really? No, REALLY?
Uncomfortable as hell (Score:3, Insightful)
Screw glasses, what about Contact Lenses?
I'm not sure how many people demand perfectly flat contact lenses, but it can't be many...
Re:But... (Score:4, Insightful)
Offtopic??? That was classic, should have at least been modded as Funny.
The problem is that lately all you see for the first half of a discussion is an endless stream of jokes ("classic" and "not so classic"). Believe it or not, most people don't come here for the jokes, they come here for technical discussion.
The problem is that slashdot has the "funny" mod, and as far as comment visibility, treats it the same as the "insightful" or "interesting" mod.
To hack around this shortcoming in the mod system, some mods choose to mod down the jokes to try to improve the S/N ratio.