Figure 1 | Concept and principle of the artificial compound eye for a panoramic camera (ACEcam) that uses conical-microlens optical fibres to mimic natural ommatidia. (IMAGE)

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS

Figure 1 | Concept and principle of the artificial compound eye for a panoramic camera (ACEcam) that uses conical-microlens optical fibres to mimic natural ommatidia.

Caption

a, Natural compound eyes (NCEs) image; photograph courtesy of Mr. Thorben Danke of Sagaoptics. b, Natural ommatidium. c, An NCE consists of numerous natural ommatidia. d, Comparison of different compound eyes. e, Artificial ommatidium. f, Artificial compound eye. 

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by Heng Jiang, Chi Chung Tsoi, Weixing Yu, Mengchao Ma, Mingjie Li, Zuankai Wang, Xuming Zhang

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