This past decade has been one of significant technological advancement, across several different industries. We’ve seen the rise of the modern smartphone (and tablets alongside it), a new generation of gaming consoles, medical AI innovations, and increasingly efficient and powerful computer hardware. Now, we’re seeing another major leap forward in the optical lens industry, thanks to a breakthrough discovered by a team of Harvard SEAS researchers.
The team has developed an “adaptive metalens,” that can adjust its focus in real-time, as the human eye can — but with some added improvements that allow it to outperform what even the best human eyes are capable of.