Spring 2023
01 May 2023
Considering our colorful cover image of the cuttlefish eye, it’s not the first time that a high-tech solution has been inspired by Mother Nature and it certainly won’t be the last. Bioinspired optical structures can offer novel approaches to light processing along with new imaging capabilities, expanding the palette of tools available to optics designers. Insects and related species, sometimes dating from prehistoric times, have often provided the blueprints for the latest devices, with examples including the nanostructures based on the eyes of moths that can improve the anti-reflective properties of optical coatings, or the class of 3D camera partly inspired by the multiview vision of flies. - Read all about it on page 9.
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