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Freeform Optical Surfaces: Report from OSA’s First Incubator Meeting
Just as business incubator programs are designed to support the development of fledgling companies, OSA’s new incubator meeting series is structured to encourage the growth of exciting new areas within optics. The first one was devoted to the topic of freeform optics—a field that is actively evolving due to recent technological advances.
Attendees at OSA’s incubator meeting on freeform optics.
In the June 2012 issue of Optics & Photonics News, we described a revolution that is under way in a 130-year-old area of optical design: freeform optical surfaces. For the first time, technology development is moving away from rotational symmetry with the introduction of φ-polynomial surfaces.
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