California’s FREMONT –Imagia, a company that creates new lens technology, announced that a USD 4.5 million seed round has closed. The funding, led by Gates Frontier and joined by MetaVC Partners and other strategic investors, will hasten the creation and initial commercialization of the firm’s flat, silicon-based optical lenses.
With the aid of Imagia’s metalens technology, a complete optical assembly may be condensed into a planar, wafer-thin component, drastically reducing their size and complexity. Without the need for conventional curved lenses, Imagia can carefully create nanoscale features directly onto a variety of substrates to produce entirely flat metalenses that deliberately redirect light waves. This method is subject to a patent application. The lenses can be made as small as a single pixel on a digital display and can be square or spherical.
Current producers of complicated optoelectronic devices, such as AR/VR headsets, are constrained by the constraints of conventional bulk optics and, therefore, frequently compromise between ergonomic shape and optical function. Metalenses, which give manufacturers unprecedented visual design flexibility to create higher-performing products with substantially reduced size, weight, and complexity, eliminate these restrictions.
The method used by Imagia also enables the creation of whole new device designs because its metalenses can be constructed concurrently with CMOS components like LEDs and image sensors, skipping several crucial stages of optomechanical alignment.
According to Greg Kress, CEO of Imagia, “Metamaterials represent a fundamental paradigm shift in how we manage light, comparable to the transition from analog to digital computing. There have been conventional glass lenses for many years. Working with these lenses has limitations, leading to massive, complicated optical assemblies that need exact mechanical alignments. Imagia alters this method by creating lenses that function like integrated circuits, which was previously impossible.
Imagia’s metalens technology, which is now in the prototype stage, has been shown to significantly reduce optical system volume by >90% in several applications, including lightweight, high-performance AR glasses and next-generation holographic displays. Imagia has also established the groundwork for future image-sensing lens development growth.
According to Pulsar, the top AR hardware and optics manufacturer and the company behind Red6’s ATARS and NuEyes’ NuLoupes, “We are firm believers that this kind of metalens technology will power the next generation of AR glasses.” Currently, Pulsar and Imagia are collaborating to research potential uses for metalenses. “Imagia’s metalens technology promises to open up new, previously unattainable frontiers in optical design.”
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