Fabrication of out-of-plane refractive concave and convex microlens arrays

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5717, Issue , 2005, Pages 134-141

  Yang, Ren ^a   Soper, Steven A ^b   Wang, Wanjun ^a  

^a Louisiana State University   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concave; Convex; Fiber coupler; Free space optics; Integrated optical systems; Out of plane; Pre aligned; Refractive microlens array; SU 8; UV lithography

Indexed keywords

CONCAVE; CONVEX; FIBER COUPLER; FREE-SPACE OPTICS; INTEGRATED OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OUT-OF-PLANE; PRE-ALIGNED; REFRACTIVE MICROLENS ARRAY; SU-8; UV LITHOGRAPHY;

INTEGRATED OPTICS; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROLENSES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PROPERTIES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ARRAYS;

EID: 21844445825     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.601832     Document Type: Conference Paper

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