Duparre, J., Voelkel, R., Knop, K.
DE 102005016818 A1 UPAB: 20061213 NOVELTY - The device has hole apertures (6) and detectors (7), and optical channels attached with respective micro lenses. The apertures and detectors extracts a...
Laser lithographic fabrication and characterization of a spherical artificial compound eye (2007)
Radtke, D., Duparre, J., Zeitner, U.D., Tünnermann, A.
A spherical artificial compound eye which is comprised of an imaging microlens array and a pinhole array in the focal plane serving as receptor matrix is fabricated. The arrays are patterned on...
Spherical artificial compound eye captures real images (2007)
Duparre, J., Radtke, D., Tünnermann, A.
This paper deals with the design, fabrication and characterization of the first spherical artificial compound eye which is capable of obtaining resolvable images. Due to fabrication aspects it is...
Position detection with hyperacuity using artificial compound eyes (2007)
Brückner, A., Duparre, J., Bräuer, A., Tünnermann, A.
Inspired by the natural phenomenon of hyperacuity, a novel approach has been analyzed that allows to access highly accurate information with an artificial apposition compound eye despite the number...
MEMS compatible illumination and imaging micro-optical systems (2007)
Bräuer, A., Dannberg, P., Duparre, J., Höfer, B., Schreiber, P., Scholles, M.
The development of new MOEMS demands for cooperation between researchers in micromechanics, optoelectronics and microoptics at a very early state. Additionally, microoptical technologies being...
Brückner, A., Duparre, J., Bräuer, A., Tünnermann, A.
We propose what we believe to be a novel, refined model of the angular sensitivity function of artificial apposition compound eyes. Compared with the formerly used Gaussian approximation that was...
Artificial neural superposition eye (2007)
Brückner, A., Duparre, J., Dannberg, P., Bräuer, A., Tünnermann, A.
We propose an ultra-thin imaging system which is based on the neural superposition compound eye of insects. Multiple light sensitive pixels in the footprint of each lenslet of this multi-channel...
Novel optics/micro-optics for miniature imaging systems: Photonics in multimedia (2006)
The visual revolution triggered by the commercial application of digital image capturing devices generates the need for new miniaturized and cheap optical imaging systems and cameras. However, in...
Microoptical artifical compound eyes (2006)
Natural compound eyes combine small eye volumes with a large field of view at the cost of comparatively low spatial resolution. For small invertebrates such as flies or moths, compound eyes are the...
Fabrication technologies for chirped refractive microlens arrays (2006)
Wippermann, F., Radtke, D., Zeitner, U.D., Duparre, J., Tünnermann, A., Amberg, M., ...
Conventional microlens arrays consist of a repetitive arrangement of a unit cell on a fixed pitch. In a chirped array, the inflexibility of a regular structure has been overcome. Here, the array...
Wippermann, F., Duparre, J., Schreiber, P.
The fields of applications for microlens arrays are widespread ranging from multi-channel collimation in fiber optics, wave front sensors to imaging and beam shaping tasks. Herein identical lens-lets...
Position detection with hyperacuity using artificial compound eyes (2006)
Brückner, A., Duparre, J., Schreiber, P., Tünnermann, A.
Inspired by the natural phenomenon of hyperacuity, redundant sampling in combination with the knowledge about the impulse response is used to extract high resolution information like the position of...
Artificial compound eye applying hyperacuity (2006)
Brückner, A., Duparre, J., Bräuer, A., Tünnermann, A.
Inspired by the natural phenomenon of hyperacuity, redundant sampling in combination with the knowledge about the impulse response of the imaging system is used to extract highly accurate information...
Microoptical artificial compounds eyes - Two different concepts for compact imaging systems (2005)
Duparre, J., Dannberg, P., Bräuer, A., Völkel, R., Scharf, T.
Duparre, J., Wippermann, F., Dannberg, P., Schreiber, P., Bräuer, A., Völkel, R., ...
Wo novel objective types on the basis of artificial compound eyes are examined. Both imaging systems are well suited for fabrication using microoptics technology due to the small required lens sags....
Mikrooptische Systeme für Bildaufnahmeverfahren - Funktionalität und Prototyping (2005)
Duparre, J., Bräuer, A., Wippermann, F.
Wir leben in einer zunehmend visuell dominierten Welt, wobei der deutliche Trend zur Miniaturisierung der informationsaufnehmenden und wiedergebenden Geräte zu beobachten ist. Dabei ist zu erkennen,...
Bilderfassungssystem und dessen Verwendung (2005)
Duparre, J., Dannberg, P., Schreiber, P., Voelkel, R., Braeuer, A.
DE1004003013 B UPAB: 20050621 NOVELTY - The imaging system has a regular array of optical channels provided by a microlens and a detector positioned in its focal plane, for providing an image point...
Wippermann, F., Duparre, J., Schreiber, P., Dannberg, P.
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...
Thin compound eye camera (2005)
Duparre, J., Dannberg, P., Schreiber, P., Bräuer, A., Tünnermann, A.
An artificial compound-eye objective fabricated by micro-optics technology is adapted and attached to a CMOS sensor array. The novel optical sensor system with an optics thickness of only 0.2 mm is...
Microoptical telescope compound eye (2005)
Duparre, J., Schreiber, P., Matthes, A., Pshenay-Severin, E., Tünnermann, A., Völkel, R., ...
A new optical concept for compact digital image acquisition devices with large field of view is developed and proofed experimentally. Archetypes for the imaging system are compound eyes of small...
Duparre, J., Wippermann, F., Dannberg, P., Reimann, A.
Improvements of the resolution homogeneity of an ultra-thin artificial apposition compound eye objective are accomplished by the use of a chirped array of ellipsoidal micro-lenses. The array contains...
Compact illumination and camera systems for 2D and 3D sensing in automobile applications (2005)
Bräuer, A., Streppel, U., Duparre, J., Schreiber, P., Dannberg, P.
The use of optical sensor principles in automotive applications is growing fast due to the increasing demand for driver assistance and passenger security systems. Automotive applications demand for...
We present a numerical wave optical model to describe the complex behavior of co axial and decentered microlens-array-based telescopes illuminated by an incoherent angular spectrum of plane waves....