Development of a 3D artificial compound eye

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 18125-18137

  Li, Lei ^a   Yi, Allen Y ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROLENSES; MICROMACHINING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; RESEARCH; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

APERTURE ARRAYS; COMPOUND EYE; CURVED SURFACES; DEVIATION ANGLES; HIGH POTENTIAL; IMAGE FORMATIONS; IMAGE PLANE; INCIDENT LIGHT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MESO SCALE; MICRO-LENS; MICRO-LENS ARRAYS; MICRO-PRISM ARRAYS; MICROASSEMBLIES; MICROMACHINING PROCESS; MICROOPTICAL DEVICES; MICROPRISMS; OPTICAL SENSING; OPTICAL STRUCTURES; PHOTONIC APPLICATION; RESEARCH PAPERS; THREE DIMENSIONS; ULTRAPRECISION MACHINING; VISION RESEARCH;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DIAMOND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPOUND EYE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; MICROTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION;

ANIMALS; COMPOUND EYE, ARTHROPOD; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DIAMOND; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LENSES; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 77956383455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018125     Document Type: Article

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