Advances in Optical Technology and Symmetry
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 1734
Special Issue Editors
Interests: freeform optics
Interests: freeform optics; virtual reality; augmented reality; display technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Symmetry is inextricably linked with the development of optical technology. The most obvious connection may be reflected in the evolution of optical surface shapes. Traditional optical surface shapes, including spherical, conical, aspherical and cylindrical surfaces, are either rotationally or translationally symmetric. Freeform optical surface shapes with non-symmetric features are gaining popularity in both academia and industry, and have played important roles in lighting, laser beam shaping, progressive glasses, imaging, augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), etc. Symmetry evolution also exists in diffractive optical elements (DOEs), including diffraction gratings, binary optics and metasurfaces.
Unsymmetrical optical systems can provide many advantages over symmetric ones, including better optical performances and compact sizes. However, the design, fabrication, testing and alignment of unsymmetrical optical systems are still considered as difficult tasks that need to be solved or improved. In imaging applications, the computational imaging approach provides an alternative way to produce high imaging performance using symmetric optical elements (e.g., simple lens computational imaging).
The aim of the present Special Issue is to highlight the contributions to the developments in the design, fabrication, testing and alignment of unsymmetrical optical systems, in addition to computational imaging techniques that can reduce the symmetry complexities of optical systems.
We wish to invite you to make a contribution (research or review articles) to this Special Issue. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Design, fabrication and testing of aspherical and freeform optics.
- Design, fabrication and testing of DOEs.
- Assembly and alignment of unsymmetrical optical systems.
- Computational imaging using symmetric optical elements.
- Novel symmetrical and unsymmetrical optical systems in imaging, illumination and display applications.
Dr. Zexin Feng
Prof. Dr. Dewen Cheng
Dr. Xianglong Mao
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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