Design and fabrication of a chirped array of refractive ellipsoidal micro-lenses for an apposition eye camera objective

Frank Wippermann; Jacques Duparré; Peter Schreiber; Peter Dannberg

doi:10.1117/12.624630

15 October 2005 Design and fabrication of a chirped array of refractive ellipsoidal micro-lenses for an apposition eye camera objective

Frank Wippermann, Jacques Duparré, Peter Schreiber, Peter Dannberg

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Proceedings Volume 5962, Optical Design and Engineering II; 59622C (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.624630
Event: Optical Systems Design 2005, 2005, Jena, Germany

Abstract

Apposition compound eye camera objectives are one approach for a vast reduction of the optical system length of an imaging optical sensor. Despite imaging the complete field of view through one aperture like in classical lenses, these objectives split the overall field of view in separated channels which are located adjoined like in insect eyes. Due to the splitting each channel can be optimized for reduction of aberrations occuring under oblique incidence. A correction for astigmatism, field curvature and distortion occurring under oblique incidence can be accomplished by the use of anamorphic micro-lenses leading to an improved resolution of the camera objective. In contrast to regular arrays of equally shaped and equidistant positioned micro-lenses the parameters of the lenses like radii of curvature, center position and angular orientation are functions of the position within the array. These functions can be derived analytically leading to a complete description of the array parameters. We present design considerations for a chirped array containing 130x130 individually shaped ellipsoidal micro-lenses. Melting of photo-resist is employed as fabrication technology for achieving diffraction limited performance. Detailed considerations for the semi-automated layout generation of the photo lithographical masks as well as characterization data of first realized prototypes of the array are given.

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Frank Wippermann, Jacques Duparré, Peter Schreiber, and Peter Dannberg "Design and fabrication of a chirped array of refractive ellipsoidal micro-lenses for an apposition eye camera objective", Proc. SPIE 5962, Optical Design and Engineering II, 59622C (15 October 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.624630

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