Digilens's work involves building optical waveguides, so that projected images can fill or overlay the field of vision.
Building optical switches in silicon materials, for example, requires engineers to test the experimental switches themselves, and to build test equipment, too.
Researchers who specialize in machine learning for decoding speech and language, building optical neuroimaging systems with advanced spatial resolution and next-generation neural prosthetics are involved.
Low energy of the photons of the tellurite glasses allows to use them as materials for building optical amplifiers and laser devices.
"This is great stuff," says Peter Palffy-Muhoray of Kent State University in Ohio, who believes that such substances might be useful in building optical switches, changeable lenses, and little light-operated transducers.
Finally, potentially new applications of using these materials as thermal insulation for building, optical sensor, space dust collector and catalysis are discussed.
An integrated channel waveguide Y-splitter with two output parallel branches has been used as the basic optical component for building the YI.
The same theory could be used to create optical illusions in buildings or on their facades.
The optimization of optical properties of buildings' envelope and urban paving represents an important research field for reducing the urban heat island effect.
Unfortunately, instruments based on this technology are not easily developed due to the low signal-to-noise ratio inherent to the problem, the need of building optical-electronic systems, the great influence of external factors, among others.
