Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 41, Issue 7, 26(2014)
Study and Design on Freeform Surface Compound Eye with Large Field of View
The ommatidia arranged at the edge have great off-axis aberrations in artificial compound eye structure with wide Field of View (FOV) and small volume. A new compound eye structure is presented, where the ommatidia are designed as freeform prisms. With the light passing through the freeform surface and folding in the ommatidium, the off-axis aberrations are well corrected. Therefore, the image quality of the ommatidia arranged at the edge is improved,and the FOV of the structure is enlarged. To image 180° FOV, this structure contains 5 groups of ommatidia with a particular FOV correspondingly. The model of each group is designed and the ray trace is completed based on the optical simulation software codeV. The results demonstrate that the compound eyes structure has high image quality for the entire 180° FOV. On the one hand, the modulation transformation function MTF is greater than 0.2 at the frequency of 100lp/mm, and on the other hand, the distortion is less than 30%.
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FAN Yang, ZHANG Hongxia, SONG Le, JIA Dagong. Study and Design on Freeform Surface Compound Eye with Large Field of View[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2014, 41(7): 26
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Received: Sep. 26, 2013
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Published Online: Aug. 18, 2014
The Author Email: Yang FAN (fy_tju@163.com)