{"id":690065,"date":"2021-05-13T11:40:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T15:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690065"},"modified":"2021-05-13T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T15:40:03","slug":"freeform-imaging-systems-fermats-principle-unlocks-first-time-right-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690065","title":{"rendered":"Freeform imaging systems: Fermat&#039;s principle unlocks &#039;first time right&#039; design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Brussels Photonics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, have developed a &#8216;first time right&#8217; design method that eliminates the &#8220;step-and-repeat&#8221; and &#8220;trial-and-error&#8221; approach in optical system design. They demonstrated the systematic, deterministic, scalable, and holistic character of their disruptive technique with various freeform lens- and mirror-based high-end examples and invite optical designers to experience their new method hands-on via an open-access trial web application.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-05-freeform-imaging-fermat-principle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Freeform imaging systems: Fermat&#8217;s principle unlocks &#8216;first time right&#8217; design<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Brussels Photonics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, have developed a &#8216;first time right&#8217; design method that eliminates the &#8220;step-and-repeat&#8221; and &#8220;trial-and-error&#8221; approach in optical system design. They demonstrated the systematic,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690065","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690065\/revisions"}],"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=690065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}