Unlike traditional lenses, planar lenses are relatively light based on optical nanomaterials called superfacial surfaces. When super-surface subwavelength nanostructures form a specific repeating pattern, they simulate the complex curvature of the refracted rays, but not so Bulky, and the ability to focus light with reduced distortion, most of these nanostructured devices are static, thus limiting their functionality.
Federico Capasso, an Applied Physics Scientist at Harvard University who pioneered the technology of super-lensing, and Daniel Lopez, an early developer of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) at Argonne National Laboratory, and an executive at Nano Fabrication and Equipment Group at Argonne National Laboratory, have come up with the idea of combining fast scanning, Flow control and other dynamic properties into a hyper lens for new applications. Capasso and Lopez developed a device that combines a mid-IR spectroscopy lens with a MEMS device and recently performed at the American Physical Society (AIP) Publishing Group This result was reported in the journal Applied Physics Letters - Photonics.
MEMS is a circuit-based technology that integrates microelectronics and includes mechanical nanostructures such as actuators and actuators. From cell phones to airbags, bio-sensing devices, electrical and optical devices, MEMS are everywhere. It is manufactured using the same technology as the integrated circuit on a standard computer chip.
"Thousands of individually controlled MEMS lenses are densely integrated onto a single silicon wafer, enabling unprecedented control and manipulation of the light field," said Lopez. While their MEMS-integrated optics The surface lens prototype can be electronically controlled so that the angular rotation of the planar lens is different and can scan different sized focal points.