Abstract:
The concept of lobster optics was inspired by the unique structure of lobster eyes in biological world. The image points of the lobster eyes lens are distributed as a cross, which consist of focal arm and focal point. Due to the distribution of image points, there is significant background stray light in the lobster eyes lens, which seriously restricts its applications. Based on the analysis of the focusing process in the lobster eye lens, the absorbing coating method was proposed to suppress the stray light. Through combination of the end absorbing coating method and the penetration absorbing coating method, the cross focal arm and background stray light were obviously suppressed. With the model which is built with stray light analysis software, it is shown from the comparison that with absorbing coating method, the stray light of lobster-eyes lens can be remarkably inhibited. It is indicated that the level of background stray light is reduced by roughly one order of magnitude, the size of focal arms is decreased and its intensity falls by 40% under the premise of without reducing the illumination of central focus. It could greatly increase the SNR and the contrast of image.