Title

Design and assessment of microlenslet-array relay optics

Authors

Authors

V. Shaoulov;J. P. Rolland

Abbreviated Journal Title

Appl. Optics

Keywords

SYSTEM; Optics

Abstract

Recent progress in micro-optics fabrication and optical modeling software opens the opportunity to investigate how microlenslet-array-based compact relay systems can be designed and assessed. We present various optical configurations that include an appropriate baffle computation to eliminate ghost images, followed by an analysis of image quality. The investigation shows the existing trade-off between compactness of the system and a tiling effect observed in the corresponding image, an effect we refer to as lensletization. To yield meaningful optical modeling results, we provide insight into ray-tracing optimization while ensuring a sufficient signal-to-noise ratio. The results show that, given no discernable lensletization, the most compact configuration to image gray-scale images is the 5f-based system. Finally, simulations of the imaging of gray scale and color bitmaps through microlenslet arrays are demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge. (C) 2003 Optical Society of America.

Journal Title

Applied Optics

Volume

42

Issue/Number

34

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

6838

Last Page

6845

WOS Identifier

WOS:000186922700008

ISSN

1559-128X

Share

COinS