{"id":189057,"date":"2024-05-10T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/blurred-light-harnessed-to-3d-print-high-quality-lenses"},"modified":"2024-05-10T07:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:24:10","slug":"blurred-light-harnessed-to-3d-print-high-quality-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/blurred-light-harnessed-to-3d-print-high-quality-lenses","title":{"rendered":"Blurred Light Harnessed to 3D Print High Quality Lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blurred-light-harnessed-to-3d-print-high-quality-lenses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>New 3D printing method produces commercial grade microlenses with smooth surfaces, which could advance optical device design.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Canada have developed a new 3D printing method called blurred tomography that can rapidly produce microlenses with commercial-level optical quality. The new method may make it easier and faster to design and fabricate a variety of optical devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe purposely added optical blurring to the beams of light used for this 3D printing method to manufacture precision optical components,\u201d said Daniel Webber from the National Research Council of Canada. \u201cThis enables production of optically smooth surfaces.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New 3D printing method produces commercial grade microlenses with smooth surfaces, which could advance optical device design. Researchers in Canada have developed a new 3D printing method called blurred tomography that can rapidly produce microlenses with commercial-level optical quality. The new method may make it easier and faster to design and fabricate a variety of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}