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Ottawa researchers develop ‘barrel-eliminating’ optical element 14 Jun 2021 The “spaceplate” is a new approach to manipulating light that could lead to paper-thin cameras, telescopes, and smart phones. Flatter phones? optics are miniaturized with new counterpart to lens. The concept of “spaceplate” is a new approach to manipulating light that researchers from the University of Ottawa say could lead to paper-thin cameras, telescopes, significantly lighter high-performance cameras, and “camera bump-free” smart phones. The spaceplate is described as a ne...

Can you imagine one day using a telescope as thin as a sheet of paper, or a much smaller and lighter high-performance camera? Or no longer having that camera bump behind your smartphone? In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Ottawa have proposed a new optical element that could turn these ideas into reality by dramatically miniaturizing optical devices, potentially impacting many of the applications in our lives.