Advances in passive imaging elements with micromirror array

Satoshi Maekawa; Kouichi Nitta; Osamu Matoba

doi:10.1117/12.767198

29 February 2008 Advances in passive imaging elements with micromirror array

Satoshi Maekawa, Kouichi Nitta, Osamu Matoba

Proceedings Volume 6803, Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XIX; 68030B (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.767198
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We have proposed a new passive imaging optics which consists of a grid array of micro roof mirrors working as dihedral corner reflectors. Although this element forms mirror-like images at opposite side of objects, the images are real. Because the imaging principle of the proposed element is based on accumulation of rays, the design of each light path makes many kinds of devices possible. So, we propose two variations of such a device. One device consists of an array of micro retroreflectors and a half mirror, and it can also form real mirror-like images. The advantage of this device is wide range of view, because the displacement of each retororeflector is not limited on a plane unlike the roof mirror grid array. The other consists of an array of long dihedral corner reflectors. Although this structure has been already known as a roof mirror array, it can be used for imaging. This device forms two heterogeneous images. One is real at the same side of an object, and the other is virtual at the opposite side. This is a conjugate imaging optics of a slit mirror array whose mirror surface is perpendicular to the device surface. The advantage of a roor mirror array is that the real image has horizontal parallax and can be seen in air naturally.

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Satoshi Maekawa, Kouichi Nitta, and Osamu Matoba "Advances in passive imaging elements with micromirror array", Proc. SPIE 6803, Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XIX, 68030B (29 February 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.767198

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