{"id":92757,"date":"2019-06-27T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T21:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/microscopic-glass-blowing-used-to-make-tiny-optical-lenses"},"modified":"2019-06-27T14:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T21:22:43","slug":"microscopic-glass-blowing-used-to-make-tiny-optical-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/microscopic-glass-blowing-used-to-make-tiny-optical-lenses","title":{"rendered":"Microscopic glass blowing used to make tiny optical lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microscopic-glass-blowing-used-to-make-tiny-optical-lenses3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inserting air into hot glass to form a bubble has been used to make glass objects since Roman times. In new work, researchers apply these same glass blowing principles on a microscopic scale to make specialized miniature cone-shaped lenses known as axicons.<\/p>\n<p>Axicons are used to shape <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser light<\/a> in a way that is beneficial for optical drilling, imaging and creating <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+traps\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical traps<\/a> for manipulating particles or cells. These lenses have been known for more than 60 years, but their fabrication, especially when small, is not easy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur technique has the potential of producing robust miniature axicons in glass at a low cost, which could be used in miniaturized imaging systems for biomedical imaging applications, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+coherence+tomography\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical coherence tomography<\/a>, or OCT,\u201d said research team member Nicolas Passilly from FEMTO-ST Institute in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inserting air into hot glass to form a bubble has been used to make glass objects since Roman times. In new work, researchers apply these same glass blowing principles on a microscopic scale to make specialized miniature cone-shaped lenses known as axicons. Axicons are used to shape laser light in a way that is beneficial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92757","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}