June 10, 2021

Say goodbye to your camera bump: Miniaturized optics through new counterpart to lens

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2021-06-14 20:00:09

June 10, 2021

by University of Ottawa

Can you imagine one day using a telescope as thin as a sheet of paper, or a much smaller and lighter high-performance camera? Or no longer having that camera bump behind your smartphone?

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Ottawa have proposed a new optical element that could turn these ideas into reality by dramatically miniaturizing optical devices, potentially impacting many of the applications in our lives.

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