University College London's part in the project has been to design and build an optical corrector for the camera - an array of five massive lenses that sit at the primary focus of the camera.

BBC: Getting the measure of dark energy

These specialists can also prescribe an exciting array of high-tech optical devices such as software and screen-reading programs that enlarge e-mail and Web site copy, as well as handheld devices that enlarge printed material of any size.

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The company has developed advanced software tools for predicting the optical properties of new fibres so that it can quickly identify which types of hole array out of the literally infinite range of possibilities have industrially interesting properties.

ECONOMIST: A new approach to making optical fibres

The content zooms and clatters over an array of archaic and futuristic gear, from aging copper phone lines to light-bending optical switches.

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