The optical advantages of curved focal plane arrays

by: Seung-Bum Rim, Peter B Catrysse, Rostam Dinyari, Kevin Huang, Peter Peumans

Opt. Express, Vol. 16, No. 7. (31 March 2008), pp. 4965-4971.

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The design of optical systems for digital cameras is complicated by the requirement that the image surface be planar, which results in complex and expensive optics. We analyze a compact optical system with a curved image surface and compare its performance to systems with planarimage surfaces via optics analysis and image system simulation. Our analysis shows that a curved image surface provides a way to lower the number of optical elements, reduce aberrations including astigmatism and coma, and increase off-axis brightness and sharpness. A method to fabricate curved image focal plane arrays using monolithic silicon is demonstrated.

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