It’s called a mirror lens because it’s all done with mirrors… well, mostly. Mirror lenses have enjoyed various brief bursts of popularity particularly during the 1970s and ’80s ...

The eyes of all other back-boned animals use a lens to divert the path of incoming light and focus it onto a specific point of the retina. But the spookfish’s downward-facing eye uses mirrors ...

Over time, lenses and mirrors have gotten bigger in diameter and have been crafted to higher precision, while detectors have advanced to the point where they can collect and make good use of every ...

Lights, mirrors, action! Scientists are developing smart contact lenses embedded with miniscule mirrors that can magnify your vision by almost three times. The 1.55mm-thick lenses incorporate a ...

In the world of displays and visual appeal, two fundamental elements come into play: mirrors and lenses. Let’s take a look at the difference between these two components and explore how they relate to ...

Bubbles are the new lenses for nanoscale light beams Date: August 9, 2013 Source: Penn State Summary: Bending light beams to your whim sounds like a job for a wizard or an a complex array of bulky ...

Rembrandt may have traced his celebrated self-portraits from optical projections created by assemblies of mirrors or lenses, a new analysis suggests. Two U.K.-based researchers — Francis O'Neill ...

bulkier lenses and mirrors typically used in telescopes, particularly those of professional observatories on the ground and in space. Down the line, they could also be implemented on amateur ...