Theoretical analysis of an artificial superposition compound eye for application in ultra flat digital image acquisition devices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5249, Issue , 2004, Pages 408-418

  Duparré, Jacques ^a   Schreiber, Peter ^a   Völkel, Reinhard ^b  

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

^b SUSS MICROOPTICS SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anamorphic lenses; Compound eyes; Microlens arrays; Paraxial matrix optics; Ultra flat digital camera; Vision systems

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; CAMERAS; DIFFRACTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MICROLENSES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; RAY TRACING; VISION;

ANAMORPHIC LENSES; COMPOUND EYES; MICROLENS ARRAYS; PARAXIAL MATRIX OPTICS; ULTRAFLAT DIGITAL CAMERAS; VISION SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 1942521269     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.516268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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