Lens (device)

Known as: Lenses, lens 
Pieces of glass or other transparent materials used for magnification or increased visual acuity.
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2012
Highly Cited
2012
Aberration-free ultrathin flat lenses and axicons at telecom wavelengths based on plasmonic metasurfaces.
The concept of optical phase discontinuities is applied to the design and demonstration of aberration-free planar lenses and… (More)
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2010
Highly Cited
2010
Extreme-angle broadband metamaterial lens.
For centuries, the conventional approach to lens design has been to grind the surfaces of a uniform material in such a manner as… (More)
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2010
Highly Cited
2010
Double-Slot Antennas on Extended Hemispherical and Elliptical Silicon Dielectric Lenses
In this paper, the far-field patterns and Gaussian-beam coupling efficiencies are investigated for a double-slot antenna placed… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Active terahertz metamaterial devices
The development of artificially structured electromagnetic materials, termed metamaterials, has led to the realization of… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
A generic camera model and calibration method for conventional, wide-angle, and fish-eye lenses
Fish-eye lenses are convenient in such applications where a very wide angle of view is needed, but their use for measurement… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
An association between migraine and cutaneous allodynia.
Recent animal studies on the mechanism of migraine show that intracranial pain is accompanied by increased periorbital skin… (More)
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1998
Highly Cited
1998
Computer Vision Face Tracking For Use in a Perceptual User Interface
As a first step towards a perceptual user interface, a computer vision color tracking algorithm is developed and applied towards… (More)
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Choroidal and scleral mechanisms of compensation for spectacle lenses in chicks
It is known that when hyperopic or myopic defocus is imposed on chick eyes by spectacle lenses, they rapidly compensate, becoming… (More)
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Experimental test of an analytical model of aberration in an oil-immersion objective lens used in three-dimensional light microscopy.
Oil-immersion microscope objective lenses have been designed and optimized for the study of thin, two-dimensional object sections… (More)
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Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Response properties and receptive fields of cells in an anatomically defined region of the superior temporal sulcus in the monkey.
A detailed topographical representation of the visual field is present in cortical areas 17, 18 and 191,13,16. It would be… (More)
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