Device for Homogenizing Radiation by Means of Irregular Microlens Arrays
First Claim
1. A device for the homogenisation of radiation or light, comprising at least one lens arrangement which has a large number of lens systems disposed with parallel optical axes, the lens systems being at least partially non-identical and the non-identical lens systems having respectively a same numerical aperture in a first direction parallel to main plane of the lens systems.
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A device for the homogenization of radiation, preferably light, using chirped microlens arrays (cMLA) from the established regular microlens arrays (rMLA), chirped microlens arrays are an arrangement of non-identical lenses in one array. Non-identical means that the lens parameters of the lenses of the array, such as e.g. the radius of curvature, the free diameter, vertex position, and others, can vary from lens to lens or cell to cell. The parameters of each lens or cell can be determined by functions (analytically, numerically), the functions preferably being dependent upon the position of the cell or the lens in the array.
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- 1. A device for the homogenisation of radiation or light, comprising at least one lens arrangement which has a large number of lens systems disposed with parallel optical axes, the lens systems being at least partially non-identical and the non-identical lens systems having respectively a same numerical aperture in a first direction parallel to main plane of the lens systems.
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41. A method for the homogenisation of radiation, characterised in that the radiation is deflected to a microlens array with a large number of microlenses disposed with parallel optical axes, the microlenses being at least partially non-identical and the non-identical microlenses having a same numerical aperture.
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