Title :
Artificial compound eyes fabricated by femtosecond laser-enhanced chemical etching and soft replication
Author :
Feng Chen ; Qing Yang ; Hewei Liu ; Pubo Qu ; Hao Bian
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. for Phys. Electron. & Devices of the Minist. of Educ., Xi´an Jiaotong Univ., Xi´an, China
Abstract :
Reported herein is a new method to produce artificial compound eyes, which involves a femtosecond laser fabrication and soft replication. A meso-scale hemispherical shell covered with 10,200 hexagonal-shaped and gapless microlenses is demonstrated.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser beam etching; microlenses; optical fabrication; soft lithography; artificial compound eyes; femtosecond laser fabrication; gapless microlenses; hexagonal-shaped microlenses; laser-enhanced chemical etching; mesoscale hemispherical shell; soft replication; Compounds; Films; Glass; Lenses; Microoptics; Surface treatment; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
