Fig. 1: Schematic illustrations of a biologically inspired ultrathin arrayed camera and an image reconstruction method.
From: Biologically inspired ultrathin arrayed camera for high-contrast and high-resolution imaging
a Biological inspiration: Xenos peckii’s eye versus the ultrathin camera. Like the natural eye comprising facet lenses (FL), pigmented cups (PC), and photoreceptors (PRs), the biologically inspired ultrathin camera features inverted microlens arrays (iMLAs), multilayered aperture arrays (MAAs), gap spacers, and CMOS image sensor arrays (CMOS ISA). Both the pigment cups and the MAAs efficiently reduce the optical crosstalk between their lenses and thus increase the image contrast. b Imaging concept of the ultrathin arrayed camera. Objects located in the far-field plane are similarly imaged on each channel due to the small visual disparity of each channel. c Super-resolution imaging for acquiring high-contrast and high-resolution images from array images
