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Quantitative Phase Microscopy for Accurate Characterization of Microlens Arrays

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Microlens arrays are of fundamental importance in a wide variety of applications in optics and photonics. This chapter deals with an accurate digital holography-based characterization of both liquid and polymeric microlenses fabricated by an innovative pyro-electrowetting process. The actuation of liquid and polymeric films is obtained through the use of pyroelectric charges generated into polar dielectric lithium niobate crystals.

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    Simonetta Grilli

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Ottica del CNR (INO-CNR), 80078, Pozzuoli, NA, Italy

    Lisa Miccio, Francesco Merola, Andrea Finizio, Melania Paturzo, Sara Coppola, Veronica Vespini & Pietro Ferraro

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Grilli, S. et al. (2011). Quantitative Phase Microscopy for Accurate Characterization of Microlens Arrays. In: Ferraro, P., Wax, A., Zalevsky, Z. (eds) Coherent Light Microscopy. Springer Series in Surface Sciences, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15813-1_5

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