Illumination optical system and 3D image acquisition apparatus including the same

摘要

An illumination optical system of a 3-dimensional (3D) image acquisition apparatus and a 3D image acquisition apparatus including the illumination optical system. The illumination optical system of a 3D image acquisition apparatus may include a beam shaping element with a predetermined cross-sectional shape to have a field of illumination that coincides with a field of view of the 3D image acquisition apparatus. The beam shaping element may adjust a shape of illumination light according to its cross-sectional shape. Therefore, the illumination light may be condensed to fall within the field of view of the 3D image acquisition apparatus, increasing an amount of light reflecting off an object and allowing more precise depth information about the object to be obtained. The beam shaping element may uniformly homogenize the illumination light without causing light scattering or absorption, thus efficiently inhibiting speckle noise.