Investigation of statistical variations between lenslets of microlens arrays

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 4438-4445

  Glöckner, Steffen ^a   Göring, Rolf ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Micro optical beam deflectors; Micro optics; Microlens arrays

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; CALCULATIONS; MINIATURE INSTRUMENTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PERFORMANCE;

LENSLETS; MICROLENS ARRAYS; MICROOPTICAL BEAM DEFLECTORS; MICROOPTICS;

STATISTICAL OPTICS;

EID: 0031188358     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004438     Document Type: Article

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