Laser lithographie fabrication and characterization of a spherical artificial compound eye

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3067-3077

  Radtke, Daniela ^a   Duparré, Jacques ^b   Zeitner, Uwe D ^b   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; CROSSTALK; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;

CURVED SURFACES; LASER LITHOGRAPHY; MICROLENS ARRAYS;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 33947381770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003067     Document Type: Article

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