This is the Corps that employed optical genius, Agustin-Jean Fresnel. Although some lighthouses were already using lenses, they weren’t using the special Fresnel-style lenses. There had been ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Point Wilson Lighthouse is lit once again with its original 1879 Fresnel lens. Out of commission for decades, the historic lens was relit on Oct. 29. “Relighting this historic ...

Making a glass Fresnel lens with its concentric rings ... is not perhaps the most efficient lens in terms of light focused per unit area of lens. From dredging up our highschool physics lessons ...

The Point Pinos Lighthouse in Pacific Grove marks its 170th anniversary with a day of festivities and historical activities.

Researchers have fabricated and tested flat lenses called Fresnel zone plates (FZPs), but ... we produced lenses capable of focusing visible light down to only 1.1 microns, around 100 times ...

His latest work, My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses, is a thoughtful poem about the make-up of memories and how they work through our system. “Most of my work comes from a scientific point of view.

Imagine a world where augmented reality glasses are as lightweight and comfortable as everyday sunglasses, or where ...

More information: Ryohei Yamada et al, Optical Fresnel zone plate flat lenses made entirely of colored photoresist through an i-line stepper, Light: Science & Applications (2025). DOI: 10.1038 ...

The exhibit features a full-scale replica of the Two Lights lantern room housing the original second-order Fresnel lens. Visitors may recognize this light station from the movie "Forest Gump." ...