'… a valuable and up-to-date collection of contributions orienting the researcher in the ample field of micro-optics. It would be useful for informing new design choices and ways to tap the capabilities of this new technology.' Silvano Donati, Optics and Photonics News
Part I. Introduction: 1. Tunable micro-optics Hans Zappe; 2. Tunable optics in nature Robert Brunner and Erik Förster; Part II. Devices and Materials: 3. Soft matter micro-optics Wolfgang Mönch; 4. Tunable reflective optics David Dickensheets; 5. Tunable liquid lenses J. Andrew Yeh and Yen-Sheng Lu; 6. Optofluidic micro-shutters and micro-irises Philipp Müller; 7. Solid-body elastomeric lenses Sebastian Petsch, Peter Liebetraut and Hans Zappe; 8. Spatially tunable polarization devices Frederik Schaal, Michael Rutloh, Susanne Weidenfeld and Wolfgang Osten; 9. Aluminum nitride and diamond membranes for tunable micro-optics Daniel Pätz, Steffen Leopold, Verena Zürbig, Fabian Knöbber, Oliver Ambacher, Martin Hoffman, Vadim Lebedev and Stefan Sinzinger; 10. Piezoelectrically actuated tunable microlenses Jan Draheim and Ulrike Wallrabe; Part III. Systems and Applications: 11. Characterization of micro-optics Heidi Ottevaere, Lien Smeesters and Hugo Thienpont; 12. Photonic crystals Olav Solgaard and Xuan Wu; 13. MEMS scanners for OCT applications Hiroshi Toshiyoshi, Keiji Isamoto and Changho Chong; 14. Liquid crystal elastomer micro-optics Sebastian Petsch, Richard Rix, Stefan Schuhladen, Rudolf Zendel and Hans Zappe; 15. Adaptive scanning micro-eye Daniel Pätz, Stefan Sinzinger, Steffen Leopold, Martin Hoffmann, Verena Zürbig, Oliver Ambacher, Vadim Lebedev, Tobias Deutschmann and Egbert Oesterschulze; 16. Hyperspectral eye Robert Brunner, Erik Förster, Ulrike Wallrabe, Moritz Stürmer, Mohammad Abdo, Jan G. Korvink, Patrick Bohnert, Benjamin Ryba, Kaustubh Banerjee and Stefan Schuhladen; 17. Plenoptic cameras Andreas Tünnermann, Alexander Oberdörster, Frank Wippermann, Sylvia Gebhardt, Bernhard Bramlage, Dörthe Ernst, Henning Fouckhardt, Carina Heisel, Christina Kimmle, Johannes Strassner, Dominic Palm, Felix Paries and Ben Bockwinkel.