Single step fabrication of microlens arrays with hybrid HfO 2-SiO2 sol-gel glass on conventional lens surface

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5846-5852

  Zhao, Fuhua ^a,b   Xie, Yongjun ^a   He, Shiping ^a   Fu, Shaojun ^a   Lu, Zhenwu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; FABRICATION; GLASS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LENSES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SILICA; SOL-GELS; SURFACES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

3D INTEGRAL IMAGING; GLASS FABRICATION; GLASS MATERIALS; MICROLENS ARRAYS;

MICROOPTICS;

EID: 23744499987     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005846     Document Type: Article

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