Demonstration of an infrared microcamera inspired by Xenos peckii vision

Druart, Guillaume; Guérineau, Nicolas; Haïdar, Riad; Thétas, Sophie; Taboury, Jean; Rommeluère, Sylvain; Primot, Jérôme; Fendler, M.

doi:10.1364/ao.48.003368

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“…This approach is directly inspired by the compound eyes of insects [2][3][4][5][6][7]. Therefore, the multichannel approach reduces the field of view of each channel FOV e while keeping N b constant.…”

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“…Thus, the design becomes more complex, because it has to address two main difficulties (tilting the optical axis of each channel by using a planar component and suppressing cross talk between adjacent channels). Other elements must be added to the design, such as a beam deflector [7,8,33] or thin and long opaque walls between the microlens array and the detector [4,8].…”

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“…We can quote, for example, systems involving curved detectors [1], multichannel systems inspired by the compound eyes of insects [2][3][4][5][6][7], multichannel systems based on the TOMBO principle [8], lenseless imagery [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17], and folded imaging systems [18,19]. Therefore, choosing the suitable system for a given application among all these concepts is often not obvious for an optical designer.…”

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We present the range of optical architectures for imaging systems based on a single optical component, an aperture stop, and a detector. Thanks to the formalism of third-order Seidel aberrations, several strategies of simplification and miniaturization of optical systems are examined. Figures of merit are also introduced to assess the basic optical properties and performance capabilities of such systems; by this way, we show the necessary trade-off between simplicity, miniaturization, and optical performance.

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“…While this extraordinary eye organization continues to inspire novel camera designs (Brückner et al, 2011;Druart et al, 2009;Keum et al, 2016), its evolution remains unclear. However, some insight can be gained from the fact that a large number of strepsipteran species appear to be nocturnal (Pohl and Beutel, 2008).…”

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The unusual eyes ofXenos peckii(Strepsiptera: Xenidae) have green- and UV-sensitive photoreceptors

James

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Stahl

et al. 2016

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The highly specialized evolution of Strepsiptera has produced one of the most unusual eyes among mature insects, perhaps in line with their extremely complex and challenging life cycle. This relatively rare insect order is one of the few for which it has been unclear what spectral classes of photoreceptors any of its members may possess, an even more apt question given the nocturnal evolution of the group. To address this question, we performed electroretinograms on adult male Xenos peckii: we measured spectral responses to equi-quantal monochromatic light flashes of different wavelengths, and established VlogI relationships to calculate spectral sensitivities. Based on opsin template fits, we found maximal spectral sensitivity (λ max ) in the green domain at 539 nm. Application of a green light to 'bleach' green receptors revealed that a UV peak was contributed to by an independent UV opsin with a λ max of 346 nm. Transcriptomics and a phylogenetic analysis including 50 other opsin sequences further confirmed the presence of these two opsin classes. While these findings do not necessarily indicate that these unorthodox insects have color vision, they raise the possibility that UV vision plays an important role in the ability of X. peckii males to find the very cryptic strepsipteran females that are situated within their wasp hosts.

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“…Use of MA architectures is also found in the so-called compound-eye cameras, for example using prisms or dissimilar lenslets to steer light beams to extend the field-of-view by stitching the acquired subimages [9][10][11][12]. These approaches include use of dissimilar lenses to increase non-redundancy [6] or lenslet arrays exceeding detector width [11,12]; however, none of these demonstrate reduced track length for arbitrarily high angular resolution.…”

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Compact multi-aperture imaging with high angular resolution

Carles

Muyo

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J. Opt. Soc. Am. A

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Received Month X, XXXX; revised Month X, XXXX; accepted Month X, XXXX; posted Month X, XXXX (Doc. ID XXXXX); published Month X, XXXX Previous reports have demonstrated that it is possible to emulate the imaging function of a single conventional lens with an NxN array of identical lenslets to provide an N-fold reduction in imaging-system track length. This approach limits the application to low-resolution imaging. We highlight how using an array of dissimilar lenslets, with an array width that can be much wider than the detector array, high-resolution super-resolved imaging is possible. We illustrate this approach with a ray-traced design and optimization of a long-wave infrared system employing a 3x3 array of free-form lenslets to provide a four-fold reduction in track length compared to a baseline system. Simulations of image recovery show that recovered image quality is comparable to that of the baseline system.

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Demonstration of an infrared microcamera inspired by Xenos peckii vision

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Design strategies to simplify and miniaturize imaging systems

Design strategies to simplify and miniaturize imaging systems

The unusual eyes ofXenos peckii(Strepsiptera: Xenidae) have green- and UV-sensitive photoreceptors

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Demonstration of an infrared microcamera inspired by Xenos peckii vision

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Design strategies to simplify and miniaturize imaging systems

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The unusual eyes ofXenos peckii(Strepsiptera: Xenidae) have green- and UV­-sensitive photoreceptors

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The unusual eyes ofXenos peckii(Strepsiptera: Xenidae) have green- and UV-sensitive photoreceptors