Multispectral imaging using compact compound optics
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 12 (8) , 1643-1655
- https://doi.org/10.1364/opex.12.001643
Abstract
A very thin image capturing system called TOMBO (thin observation module by bound optics) is developed with compound-eye imaging and digital post-processing. As an application of TOMBO, a multispectral imaging system is proposed. With a specific arrangement of the optical system, spatial points can be observed by multiple photodetectors simultaneously. A filter array inserted in front of the image sensor enables observation of the spectrum of the target. The captured image is reconstructed by a modified pixel rearranging method extended to treat multi-channel spectral data, in which pixels in the captured image are geometrically rearranged onto a multi-channel virtual image plane. Experimental results of the image reconstruction show the effectiveness of the proposed system.Keywords
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