Nonlinear lenses and holography to enable sharper, wider views

April 23, 2009--An imaging method developed by Princeton University(Princeton, NJ) researchers could lead to lenses that show all parts of a scene at once in the same high detail. The method could help build more powerful microscopes and other optical devices. "It allows you to take a closer look at an object without narrowing your field of view," said Jason Fleischer, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Princeton who led the research. The study, co-written with graduate students Christopher Barsi and Wenjie Wan, is reported as the cover story in the April Nature Photonics.