Photonic integrated interferometric imaging based on main and auxiliary nested microlens arrays.

The traditional microlens array imager lacks content information and has low imaging quality when restoring the image of the target, which limits the development of photon integrated detection and imaging technology. Therefore, this paper proposes a new structure of the microlens array optical frequency detection imager, wherein the main microlens array is embedded into the auxiliary microlens array to achieve high-quality restoration of the target. The simulation results show that the proposed structure increased the peak signal-to-noise ratio (P) of the restored image by 21.05% and reduced the mean square error (M) by 29.39%. The microlens array with the main and auxiliary nested structure can achieve high-quality imaging of the target and has great application potential in the field of target detection.