Artificial apposition compound eye fabricated by micro-optics technology

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 4303-4310

  Duparré, Jacques ^a   Dannberg, Peter ^a   Schreiber, Peter ^a   Bräuer, Andreas ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; MICROLENSES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILICA; SUBSTRATES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISION;

COMPOUND EYE; MICRO-OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL CHANNELS; PINHOLE ARRAYS;

MICROOPTICS;

EID: 4043052481     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.004303     Document Type: Article

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