CPC G01J 1/44 (2013.01) [G02B 3/0056 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |
1. A light field relay comprising:
a plurality of microlenses;
a plurality of transducers, wherein each microlens in the plurality of microlenses is coupled to a corresponding different subset of the plurality of transducers and is configured to focus one or more selected portions of an incident light field to the corresponding different subset, and wherein each transducer in the corresponding different subset is positioned and configured to receive and transduce light from a single selected portion of the one or more selected portions of the incident light field focused by the coupled microlens and comprises a detector electrically coupled to an emitter, the detector being positioned between the coupled microlens and the emitter; and,
a plurality of output optics, each output optic in the plurality of output optics comprising a collimating lens, wherein each transducer in the corresponding different subset is associated with a corresponding different output optic in the plurality of output optics, the corresponding different output optic being positioned to receive transduced light from the emitter of the associated transducer and configured to substantially collimate the received, transduced light and to emit the substantially collimated light, and wherein the substantially collimated, emitted light has a direction of travel that is substantially the same as the direction of travel of the single selected portion and has an irradiance that is amplified in comparison to the irradiance of the single selected portion.
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