Design and fabrication of a freeform microlens array for a compact large-field-of-view compound-eye camera

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1843-1852

  Li, Lei ^a   Yi, Allen Y ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROACHING; CAMERAS; FABRICATION; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

APERTURE ARRAYS; COMPOUND-EYE CAMERA; FLAT SUBSTRATES; FREE-FORM SURFACE; LARGE FIELD OF VIEWS; MANUFACTURING COST; MICRO-INJECTION MOLDING; MICRO-LENS ARRAYS;

MICROLENSES;

EID: 84860175380     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.001843     Document Type: Article

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