UCF, Holochip in Licensing Agreement for Zoom Lens Patents

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This photo shows a tunable focus liquid lens in action. The lens developed by Shin-Tson Wu provost-distinguished professor of optics and his research team at UCFs College of Optics and Photonics replicates the function of the human eye. The lens pict ...
This photo shows a tunable focus liquid lens in action. The lens, developed by Shin-Tson Wu, provost-distinguished professor of optics, and his research team at UCF’s College of Optics and Photonics, replicates the function of the human eye. The lens pictured was built for demonstration purposes, so the aperture was expanded to 15 millimeters, or roughly the diameter of a penny. The lenses that are made for miniaturized applications, such as for cell phones, are one to two millimeters in diameter. Photo: Courtesy of UCF

The University of Central Florida has signed a licensing agreement with Holochip Corp. for a portfolio of technologies that will allow zoom lenses, such as those used in digital cameras and camera phones, to be manufactured at a dramatically smaller size without compromising clarity.


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