Title
Resolution and sensitivity of wafer-level multi-aperture cameras
Abstract
The scaling limits of multi-aperture systems have been widely discussed from an information-theoretical standpoint. While these arguments are valid as an upper limit, the real-world performance of systems for mobile devices remains restricted by optical aberrations. We argue that aberrations can be more easily controlled with certain architectures of multi-aperture systems, especially those manufactured on wafer scale (wafer-level optics, WLO). We complement our analysis with measurements of one single-and one multiaperture WLO camera. We examine both sharpness and sensitivity, giving measurements of modulation transfer function and temporal noise, and showing that multi-aperture systems can indeed reduce size without compromising performance. (C) The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI. [DOI: 10.1117/1.JEI.22.1.011001]
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1117/1.JEI.22.1.011001
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING
Field
DocType
Volume
Aperture,Computer vision,Wafer,Optical transfer function,Computer science,Mobile device,Lens (optics),Artificial intelligence,Scaling
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1017-9909
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander Oberdörster120.76
Hendrik P. A. Lensch2147196.59