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According to foreign media reports, in order to meet the technological innovation needs of the automobile industry, Knight optical company in the UK has provided a series of optical elements suitable for automobile lidar. Knight Optical's diamond aspheric lens is well known for its reliability and high quality in the automotive industry, making the industry's laser radar based automatic driving system highly accurate. Single lens will cause optical distortion due to spherical aberration, which will lead to image distortion, but aspheric lens will correct spherical aberration and avoid unevenness. Therefore, single component lens can calibrate or focus highly scattered light, and then replace multi lens system. Especially for the equipment based on lidar, compared with the multi lens setting, this setting can provide higher quality signal, and it is more economical and compact. Knight Optical provides customized diamond turning aspheric lenses, made of various near infrared materials, and can be used in laser radar driven autopilot applications. Such materials include n-bk7 (or equivalent), sapphire, quartz, UV fused quartz, etc. Diamond turning aspheric lens is also commonly used in optical components such as missile guidance system, night vision mirror and other military instruments. For example, in the night vision mirror, only one aspheric lens can replace the multiple lens array, so as to reduce spherical distortion, weight and cost.