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Space-filling Modular Optics

M. P. Schamschula, H. J. Caulfield, and A. Brown

Opt. Lett. 19, 689-691 (1994)

Abstract

Repeated folding of the optical axis can be used to design space- and volume-efficient optical systems. We suggest that space-filling curves, such as Peano and Hilbert curves, offer a useful way of realizing compact modular optics.