Optical fibre based artificial compound eyes for direct static imaging and ultrafast motion detection.

ABSTRACT: Natural selection has driven arthropods to evolve fantastic natural compound eyes (NCEs) with a unique anatomical structure, providing a promising blueprint for artificial compound eyes (ACEs) to achieve static and dynamic perceptions in complex environments. Specifically, each NCE utilises an array of ommatidia, the imaging units, distributed on a curved surface to enable abundant merits. This has inspired the development of many ACEs using various microlens arrays, but the reported ACEs have limited performances in static imaging and motion detection. Particularly, it is challenging to mimic the apposition modality to effectively transmit light rays collected by many microlenses on a curved surface to a flat imaging sensor chip while preserving their spatial relationships without interfe

SUBMITTER: Jiang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11410978 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature