{"id":199901,"date":"2024-11-21T07:23:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T13:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/revolutionizing-light-control-caltechs-mind-bending-3d-printed-optical-devices"},"modified":"2024-11-21T07:23:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T13:23:23","slug":"revolutionizing-light-control-caltechs-mind-bending-3d-printed-optical-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/revolutionizing-light-control-caltechs-mind-bending-3d-printed-optical-devices","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionizing Light Control: Caltech\u2019s Mind-Bending 3D-Printed Optical Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/revolutionizing-light-control-caltechs-mind-bending-3d-printed-optical-devices3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Caltech\u2019s new optical devices, evolved by algorithms and crafted via precise 3D printing, offer advanced light-manipulation for applications like augmented reality and cameras.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Caltech have developed a groundbreaking technology that \u201cevolves\u201d optical devices and fabricates them using a specialized 3D printer. These devices, composed of optical metamaterials, gain their unique properties from nanometer-scale structures. This innovation could enable cameras and sensors to detect and manipulate light in ways previously impossible at such small scales.<\/p>\n<p>The research was conducted in the lab of Andrei Faraon, the William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering and was published in the journal <i>Nature Communications<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caltech\u2019s new optical devices, evolved by algorithms and crafted via precise 3D printing, offer advanced light-manipulation for applications like augmented reality and cameras. Researchers at Caltech have developed a groundbreaking technology that \u201cevolves\u201d optical devices and fabricates them using a specialized 3D printer. These devices, composed of optical metamaterials, gain their unique properties from nanometer-scale [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1498,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-augmented-reality","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199901","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}