{"id":2984,"date":"2013-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/loft\/telescopic-contact-lens-that-zooms\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T00:00:00","slug":"telescopic-contact-lens-that-zooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/telescopic-contact-lens-that-zooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Telescopic contact lens that zooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A novel telescopic contact lens has been developed by engineers led by Joe Ford at UC San Diego. The lens can add a 2.8x optical zoom to normal vision when its mode is switched with a polarized glasses. The design uses 4 aspherical reflective surfaces and a diffractive optical element to achieve the performance and keep the lens wearable (1.17 mm thick) at the same time. The work was originally published on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opticsinfobase.org\/oe\/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-21-13-15980\"> Optical Express<\/a>. As an optical testing group, we are thinking: \u201chow to test it\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comagenius.net\/2013\/07\/switchable-telescopic-contact-lens.html#.UeWQIo3VCao\">http:\/\/www.comagenius.net\/2013\/07\/switchable-telescopic-contact-lens.html#.UeWQIo3VCao<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/engineers-develop-a-telescopic-contact-lens\/\">http:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/engineers-develop-a-telescopic-contact-lens\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt='' src=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/04\/figuretelescopiclens.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novel telescopic contact lens has been developed by engineers led by Joe Ford at UC San Diego. The lens can add a 2.8x optical zoom to normal vision when its mode is switched with a polarized glasses. The design uses 4 aspherical reflective surfaces and a diffractive optical element to achieve the performance and keep the lens wearable (1.17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-loft-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}