Metalenz
Metalenz specializes in advanced meta-optics for various applications, including consumer electronics, automotive, and smart robotics, enhancing imaging performance and reducing manufacturing costs.
Services
Metalenz offers a range of advanced optical solutions, aimed at enhancing the performance of various imaging applications. Their services include the development of customized meta-optics for Consumer Electronics, Automotive, and Smart Robotics sectors. By incorporating their innovative optics technology, Metalenz facilitates functionalities such as secure face unlock for smartphones, superior 3D imaging, and improved signal to noise ratios in imaging systems.
Products
Metalenz provides several key products in the meta-optics domain, notably the Orion Pattern Projectors, Gemini Dual Pattern Projectors, and the PolarEyes Polarization Imaging System. These products are designed to offer high imaging performance, less stray light, and complete control over light characteristics. Their Polar ID technology enables secure and straightforward face unlock features for smartphones, showcasing their specialty in integrating advanced optics into consumer electronics.
Sector
Metalenz primarily serves the Consumer Electronics, Automotive, and Smart Robotics markets. Their technology is pivotal in these sectors as it offers solutions for secure authentication, enhances imaging quality, and improves the performance of robotic vision systems. By focusing on these industries, Metalenz contributes to advancements in areas such as mobile technology, autonomous vehicles, and intelligent robotic systems.
Technology Benefits
The technology developed by Metalenz provides significant advantages over traditional diffractive optics. It achieves a fourfold improvement in signal to noise ratios in 3D imaging systems and maintains high stability under extreme temperatures. Additionally, the meta-optics fabricated with a single semiconductor layer ensure high yield and cost-effective mass production. By replacing entire sets of refractive and diffractive lenses, Metalenz reduces the costs associated with lens integration, assembly, and alignment, while delivering enhanced performance.
Meta-optics Fabrication
Metalenz's meta-optics are fabricated using a single semiconductor layer, facilitating high yield and cost-effective mass production. This process allows for multifunctional optics that can replace an entire set of lenses, minimizing the expense and complexity associated with lens integration, assembly, and alignment. The meta-optics offer control over the intensity, phase, and polarization of light, providing superior imaging capabilities and robustness in various applications.