Automated computational optimization of optical lens design set to enhance smartphone cameras

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-automated-scheme-optical-lens-mobile.html

"integrating complex lens system design into increasing complexity, incrementally increasing demands on resolution, aperture size, field of view... no need for starting point human-based design... reduces months of manual human work to single day of computation... extended depth-of-field computational lens. 6-element classical imaging system, microscopes/ telescopes/ cameras... future:  hybrid optical systems combining refractive-, diffractive-, meta- lenses, enabling miniaturization, spectral cameras, joint-color depth imaging"

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