Camera lenses are often described as being 'aspherical', but what does it mean, and is it the only way to design a lens? A lot of lenses are spherical, though. What we mean by “spherical” is usually ...

Optical Surfaces Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of high quality aspheric lenses for a wide array of demanding optical applications that involve beam focusing, collimation, expansion or wavefront ...

Aspheric lenses are designed to focus or collimate light without introducing spherical aberration into the transmitted wavefront. For monochromatic sources, spherical aberration is often what prevents ...

The FLGS3 Series lens, for optical communication in submarine cables and base stations, has high optical coupling efficiency and is compatible with wide-angle laser diodes, it comes in a 1×1mm profile ...

Digital camera and optical lens maker Asia Optical has been promoting aspherical molded glass lenses for adoption in automotive cameras, smartphone cameras, VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented ...

Asia Optical is developing smartphone-use 5x optical zoom lenses, each consisting of an aspherical glass lens piece and four plastic ones, through cooperation with Israel-based software developer ...

Fresnel, pancake or aspherical: VR glasses contain a lot of optical know-how, but choosing the right lens remains a compromise. Choosing the right lens is crucial for image quality, comfort and ...