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Why can't flat lenses focus light? | Science Questions with Surprising Answers

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Actually, flat lenses can focus light if they are built properly. Let us look at the basics of lenses and then at different types of flat lenses. A...

Why can't flat lenses focus light? Category: Physics Published: September 30, 2013 By: Christopher S. Baird, author of The Top 50 Science Questions with Surprising Answers and Associate Professor of Physics at West Texas A&M University Actually, flat lenses can focus light if they are built properly. Let us look at the basics of lenses and then at different types of flat lenses. A traditional lens is essentially a curved piece of glass that bends light through a process known as "refraction". Whenever a ray of light travels from one transparent material, such as air, into another transparent m

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