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Thursday, November 25, 2021

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Need for Massive Space Telescope Inspires Lightweight Flexible Holographic Lens

Optical setup to record holographic lens.

Optical setup to record holographic lens.  Credit: © Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Inspired by a concept for discovering exoplanets with a massive space telescope, a team of researchers is developing holographic lenses that render visible and infrared starlight into either a focused image or a spectrum. An exoplanet is a planet that orbits a star outside our solar system.