Title

Design And Assessment Of Microlenslet-Array Relay 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. © 2003 Optical Society of America.

Publication Date

12-1-2003

Publication Title

Applied Optics

Volume

42

Issue

34

Number of Pages

6838-6845

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.42.006838

Socpus ID

0345117257 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0345117257

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