Improved homogenization of fly's eye condenser setups under coherent illumination using chirped microlens arrays

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6466, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wippermann, F C ^a   Dannberg, P ^a   Brauer A ^a   Sinzinger, S ^b  

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

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beam homogenizer; Fly's eye condenser; Microlens arrays

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECKLE;

BEAM HOMOGENIZER; FLY'S EYE CONDENSER; HOMOGENIZATION; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; REGULAR MICROLENS ARRAYS;

MICROLENSES;

EID: 34247342907     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.700127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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