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| | Nat' Academies Press, SBIR Program Diversity and Assessment Challenges: Report of a Symposium (2004) |
 | | The objective of the company was to make axial gradients, and the theory, which had been proved in practice, was that the technology would halve the number of lenses needed for any complicated lens system, such as a camera or spotting scope. |
 | | He said he had believed that “by 1975 everyone in the world would be using gradient index optics.” The basis of that belief, and of others with whom he worked at Western Electric, in Princeton, New Jersey, was the then-rapid development of picture phones. |
 | | In 1970 he began doing research in the field of gradient index optics, or GRIN. |
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