Simulation of micro-optical array systems with RAYTRACE

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1809-1816

  Lindlein, Norbert ^a   Simon, Frank ^a   Schwider, Johannes ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Ctrl Inst for Opt and Spectrosc   (Germany)

Author keywords

Micro optics; Microlens arrays; Optical design software; Ray tracing Shack Hartmann wavefront sensor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001430796     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601725     Document Type: Article

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