{"id":422025,"date":"2018-01-01T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=56cd8961cdb26126acf5cc1f908d8449"},"modified":"2018-01-01T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T16:00:05","slug":"single-metalens-focuses-all-colors-of-the-rainbow-in-one-point-opens-new-possibilities-in-virtual-augmented-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=422025","title":{"rendered":"Single metalens focuses all colors of the rainbow in one point; opens new possibilities in virtual, augmented reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metalenses\u2014flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light\u2014promise to revolutionize optics by replacing the bulky, curved lenses currently used in optical devices with a simple, flat surface. But, these metalenses have remained limited in the spectrum of light they can focus well. Now a team of researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed the first single lens that can focus the entire visible spectrum of light\u2014including white light\u2014in the same spot and in high resolution. This has only ever been achieved in conventional lenses by stacking multiple lenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metalenses&mdash;flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light&mdash;promise to revolutionize optics by replacing the bulky, curved lenses currently used in optical devices with a simple, flat surface. But, these metalenses have remained limited in the spectrum of light they can focus well. Now a team of researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed the first single lens that can focus the entire visible spectrum of light&mdash;including white light&mdash;in the same spot and in high resolution. This has only ever been achieved in conventional lenses by stacking multiple lenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422026,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422025\/revisions\/422026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}