Design and assessment of microlenslet-array relay optics

    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

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