poLight ASA Launches MLens® Off-The-Shelf Lenses Delivering Tunable Optics Focusing Capabilities for Industrial Machine Vision Applications

20 Jan 2026 08:00 CET

TØNSBERG, Norway -- 20 January, 2026 - poLight ASA
(https://www.polight.com/home/default.aspx) (OSE: PLT) today announced its new
MLens® off-the-shelf (OTS) portfolio of M12 focusing camera lens for
industrial machine vision applications. Based on the company's ultrafast,
ultralow power consuming TLens® tunable optics technology, these new lenses
enable design engineers to rapidly set and change object/focal distances to
accommodate different scenarios. MLens® in 6mm and 7.5mm focal lengths are
available for ordering immediately. 13mm and 19mm focal length lens will be
available in the first half of the year. Product samples, a supporting
evaluation kit plus several live and static demos will be on display in our
booth 6317 and on several other booths at the SPIE Photonics West, January
19-22 in San Francisco, California. In addition, Pierre Craen, CTO of poLight
ASA, will deliver a Vision Tech main stage presentation
(https://bit.ly/3ZaEWe8) on January 21 at 3:30pm. For more information, visit
www,polight.com (https://www.polight.com/products/tlens/mlens/)

Yole Group estimates the industrial machine vision market to reach USD $7.8
billion with a CAGR of 2.1 percent by 2029, based on AI-driven imaging
requirements in automated manufacturing settings. Historically, industrial
machine vision OEMs were forced to rely on fixed focus cameras with high
F-stop to achieve sufficient depth of focus, hindering advanced imaging for
factory and warehouse automation, barcode scanners, and embedded cameras.
Delivering a small, cost-competitive OTS solution with constant field-of-view
focusing and based on a standard sensor platform enables industrial machine
vision OEMs to quickly ramp their advanced technology.

"We have seen first-hand the growing AI-based imaging needs facing industrial
and machine vision OEMs and believe our tunable optics technology can deliver
a solution," said Dr. Øyvind Isaksen, CEO of poLight ASA. "By combining our
TLens®-based, OTS portfolio of MLens® lens with an ecosystem of software and
development platform collaborators, we can dramatically ease the design
challenges facing our customers. Developing this product line of lenses
supports our company goals of advancing innovation and shaping the future of
tunable optics."

"As a leading global supplier of innovative and cost-effective digital imaging
and projection optics solutions, partnering with poLight on their MLens®
portfolio aligns with our commitment to deliver solutions that engineers
need", said Ben Roberts, Vice President Sales and Marketing at Sunex, Inc.
"Combining our M12 lens design and manufacturing expertise with the new OTS
focusing lens portfolio speeds development and deployment of industrial and
machine vision products."

"We are pleased to join the MLens® ecosystem as we continually strive for ways
to push image quality, autofocus performance, and system responsiveness for
machine vision developers," said Jason Cope, Founder & CEO of Image Quality
Labs. "Our Raspberry Pi MLens® Studio platform provides a plug-and-play way to
evaluate MLens® behavior in minutes, not months."

poLight offers an evaluation kit enabling easy control of the driver board via
a USB connection to a PC or Mac computer. To order MLens® samples and an
evaluation kit, contact info@polight.com

About poLight ASA
poLight ASA (listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange: PLT) offers a patented,
proprietary tunable optics technology, starting with its first product, TLens®
which replicates "the human eye" experience in autofocus cameras used in
devices such as smartphones, wearables, barcode scanners, machine vision
systems and various medical equipment. poLight's TLens® enables better system
performance and new user experiences due to benefits such as extremely fast
focus, small footprint, no magnetic interference, low power consumption and
constant field of view. poLight is based in Tønsberg, Norway, with employees
in Finland, France, UK, US, China, Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines. For
more information, please visit https://www.polight.com
(https://www.polight.com/)

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