Tunoptix delivers disruptive, software-defined meta-optical systems that overcome the limitations of diffractive optics—eliminating chromatic aberrations and enabling high-quality narrowband, broadband, and hyperspectral imaging. Our technology powers a wide range of next-generation imaging applications across both consumer and industrial markets.
Today’s Technology: Compound Lenses
- To bring light of different colors into focus, conventional lenses rely on multiple, cascaded optics to cancel the dispersion of one another
- These compound systems often require additional optics for mitigating geometric aberrations, making such designs bulky, costly, thermally sensitive, and challenging to assemble
Tunoptix Solution: Computational Meta-Optics
- Our solution utilizes subwavelength nano-scatterers to apply specialized transformations on broadband light. This facilitates high-quality, low-latency computational reconstruction of complex scenes
- These broadband, polarization-insensitive systems operate without any additional lenses and require only a single, flat meta-optic. We can accommodate design scenarios at low f-numbers with lens diameters ranging from sub-millimeter to decimeter-scale optics
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Key Advantages
- Leverages benefits of meta-optics (flat optics)
- Enables complex optical devices (lithographically defined optics vs mechanical grinding and polishing)
- Thinner and lighter optical elements (typically 10X – 100X thinner with proportional weight savings) from ultra-low total track length
- Multiple elements can be combined into a single, flat surface
- Enhanced information capacity relative to conventional optics
- Thermally stable and no moving parts
- Proprietary end-to-end design of meta-optics and software reconstruction
- Enables broadband imaging with larger apertures
- Provides additional scene information for value-add imaging spectroscopy
- Customized spectral filters provide lower complexity for light-field approach
- Higher field of view, higher lens speed, improved signal-to-noise to enable hyperspectral imaging in mobile form factors
- High spectral and spatial performance needed for hyperspectral imaging
Publications and Research
This research highlights some of the academic foundations of Tunoptix’s patented technology
- Real time full-color imaging in a Meta-optical fiber endoscope
- Meta-optics for Computational Imaging
- End-to-end Optimized Meta-optics for Full-color Imaging
- Analysis of EDOF Metalenses for Computational Imaging
- Freeform Meta-optics
- Varifocal Zoom Imaging
- Varifocal and Achromatic Meta-optics
- Meta-optical Depth Imaging
- Silicon Nitride-based Meta-optics
- CMOS-compatible Flat optics
- MEMS-actuated Metasurface Alvarez lenses