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3D printed micro-optics

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Uncompromised performance of micro-optical compound lenses has been achieved by high-fidelity shape definition during two-photon absorption microfabrication. The lenses have been made directly onto image sensors and even onto the tip of an optic fibre.

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Figure 1: Miniaturized imaging set-up using a camera obscura (pinhole camera).
Figure 2: Imaging with aspheric arrays of compound microlenses.

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  1. Saulius Juodkazis is at the Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology, John Street, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia,

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Juodkazis, S. 3D printed micro-optics. Nature Photon 10, 499–501 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.150

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