Law of refraction for generalised confocal lenslet arrays

TL;DR

This paper derives a new law of refraction for generalized confocal lenslet arrays, which are misaligned telescope arrays, and implements it in an open-source ray tracer.

Contribution

The paper introduces a generalized refraction law for confocal lenslet arrays and provides an implementation in a custom ray tracing software.

Findings

Derived the law of refraction for generalized confocal lenslet arrays

Implemented the law in an open-source ray tracer

Demonstrated the application in optical simulations

Abstract

We derive the law of generalised refraction for generalised confocal lenslet arrays, which are arrays of misaligned telescopes. We have implemented this law of refraction in TIM, a custom open-source ray tracer.