{"id":74915,"date":"2018-01-03T19:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T03:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/a-revolutionary-new-type-of-lens-focuses-all-the-colours-of-the-rainbow-into-a-single-point"},"modified":"2018-01-09T20:02:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T04:02:48","slug":"a-revolutionary-new-type-of-lens-focuses-all-the-colours-of-the-rainbow-into-a-single-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/a-revolutionary-new-type-of-lens-focuses-all-the-colours-of-the-rainbow-into-a-single-point","title":{"rendered":"A Revolutionary New Type of Lens Focuses All The Colours of The Rainbow Into a Single Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-revolutionary-new-type-of-lens-focuses-all-the-colours-of-the-rainbow-into-a-single-point2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A brand new type of lens called a metalens has just passed a major hurdle. A metalens is a flat surface that use nanostructures to focus light, and it could change optics forever by replacing the traditional bulky, curved lenses we know.<\/p>\n<p>Up until now these ultra-compact lenses have had enormous potential, but they\u2019ve struggled to focus a broad spectrum of light. Well, that just changed.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time researchers have managed to develop a single metalens capable of focusing all the colours of the rainbow \u2013 the entire visible spectrum of light, making white light \u2013 into one point at a high resolution, something that has required multiple lenses in the past.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/single-metalens-brings-all-rainbow-colours-into-single-point-focus\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/single-metalens-brings-all-rainb...oint-focus<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brand new type of lens called a metalens has just passed a major hurdle. A metalens is a flat surface that use nanostructures to focus light, and it could change optics forever by replacing the traditional bulky, curved lenses we know. Up until now these ultra-compact lenses have had enormous potential, but they\u2019ve struggled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74915","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=74915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75023,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74915\/revisions\/75023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}