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A.6 Optical Qualities of the Fly Eye — An Approach from the Side of Geometrical, Physical and Waveguide Optics

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Photoreceptor Optics

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The compound eye of the fly is a versatile detection system for optical information reaching it from the environment. Incident light is transduced by the photoreceptor cells in the retina into neural signals which are transmitted step by step to the higher order ganglia.

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  1. Doekele G. Stavenga
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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, P.O. Box 4, 2600, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia

    Allan W. Snyder

  2. Fachbereich Biologie, Zoologie, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstraße 3, 61 Darmstadt, W.Germany

    Randolf Menzel

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Stavenga, D.G. (1975). A.6 Optical Qualities of the Fly Eye — An Approach from the Side of Geometrical, Physical and Waveguide Optics. In: Snyder, A.W., Menzel, R. (eds) Photoreceptor Optics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80934-7_7

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