{"id":16304,"date":"2016-06-05T12:38:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T17:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16304"},"modified":"2016-06-05T12:38:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T17:38:24","slug":"flat-lens-promises-possible-revolution-in-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16304","title":{"rendered":"Flat lens promises possible revolution in optics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The lens is quite unlike the curved disks of glass familiar from cameras and binoculars. Instead, it is made of a thin layer of transparent quartz coated in millions of tiny pillars, each just tens of nanometres across and hundreds high.<\/p>\n<p>Singly, each pillar interacts strongly with light. Their combined effect is to slice up a light beam and remould it as the rays pass through the array<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-36438686\">Flat lens promises possible revolution in optics &#8211; BBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The quality of our images is actually better than with a state-of-the-art objective lens. I think it is no exaggeration to say that this is potentially revolutionary.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lens is quite unlike the curved disks of glass familiar from cameras and binoculars. Instead, it is made of a thin layer of transparent quartz coated in millions of tiny pillars, each just tens of nanometres across and hundreds &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16304\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[100,631,466,627],"class_list":["post-16304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-interesting-research","tag-material-science","tag-optics","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16318,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304\/revisions\/16318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}