Evaluation of the dynamic range and spatial resolution of nonadiabatic optical near-field lithography through fabrication of Fresnel zone plates

Fresnel zone plates (FZPs) were fabricated in order to evaluate the performance of nonadiabatic photolithography by exploiting the localized nature of optical near fields. This novel photolithography scheme could realize FZPs with structures smaller than the wavelength of the light source used for exposure. The FZP for 325-nm-wavelength UV light could focus the incident light to a spot size of 590 nm. An FZP for focusing soft X-rays was also fabricated and, compared to conventional adiabatic photolithography, showed higher-contrast zones over the whole area of the FZP. This method exhibits a high dynamic range and good spatial resolution, and it was free from artifacts due to the interference of the residual propagating exposure light transmitted through the aperture of the photomask.     

改进型分形波带片的焦深特性研究

提出了一种具有增大焦深特性的改进型分形波带片(FZP).分析并推导了改进型分形波带片基于优化参数w的周期公式;计算了改进型分形波带片在菲涅耳近似下的衍射光场分布以及对应的横向光场分布特性因子,包括分辨率因子(G),施特雷尔比(S)以及旁瓣强度因子(M);同时分析了在不同的径向坐标r和r2下的改进型分形波带片的焦深特性,...     

Fractal zone plates

Fractal zone plates (FZPs), i.e., zone plates with a fractal structure, are described. The focusing properties of this new type of zone plate are compared with those of conventional Fresnel zone plates. It is shown that the axial irradiance exhibited by the FZP has self-similarity properties that can be correlated to those of the diffracting aperture.     

菲涅耳波带板应用于聚变靶的高分辨X射线成像分析

在惯性约束核聚变研究中,为了实现1μm高空间分辨keV-X射线成像,文中发展了菲涅耳波带板(FZP)直接成像的分析方法,并通过数值计算研究了FZP的成像特性.针对钛K_α线(光子能量4.51 keV,波长0.275 nm),提出了FZP参数,对制作技术的要求较低.研究了靶尺度的影响.FZP的有效视场使它能够对数毫米大尺度靶实现高分辨成像.还研究了入射光的光谱带宽对成像的影响.FZP的色差有助于单色成像,但是带宽超过限度会导致像的反衬度降低.这些结果表明FZP应用于聚变点火靶的高空间分辨X射线成像的能力,也为应用提出了要求. 关键词： X射线成像 惯性约束核聚变 菲涅耳波带板     

用菲涅尔平板天线实现相干来波方向的估计

菲涅尔平板天线由于其具有宽频带、重量轻、馈电简单和易于共形等优点，可替代透镜天线用于毫米波成像或用作微波移信通信中的接收天线单元等。同时，其作为聚焦器件，通过与馈源阵列组合，可以构成一种新型的自适应天线应用于蜂窝移动通信的基站智能天线等领域，基于其良好的工程应用前景，本文在对有关研究工作简要回顾的基础上，深入分析其去相关机理，应用极大似然估计算法实现了相干信号源在大角度入射的情形下，菲涅尔平板天线对来波方向的有效估计，避免了应用MUSIC算法进行来波方向估计所遇到的观察区域的限制问题，仿真计算和有关文献数值分析结果的比较表明，菲涅尔平板天线具有良好的空间谱估计性能。     

菲涅耳波带板无运动卷积偏振选通成像研究

提出了菲涅耳波带板(FZP)无运动卷积偏振选通全息术,该技术的原理与菲涅耳波带板扫描全息术相同,但在成像系统结构上作了重大改进,改进内容主要有两个方面:第一,使用扩展光源,用多个菲涅耳波带板在物体上的投影叠加形成卷积运算来取代机械扫描,克服了扫描造成的系统不稳定性和限制实际应用的耗时问题;第二,用CCD取代光电倍增管,使物体上所有的点都同时成像在CCD靶面上,达到实时采集整个全息图的目的。对线偏振光和圆偏振光经过散射介质脂肪乳剂(Intralipid)溶液后偏振度的变化规律进行了实验研究,研究表明,在米氏散射区,圆偏振光比线偏振光更容易保持偏振态。应用菲涅耳波带板无运动卷积偏振选通成像系统,采用圆偏振光作为入射光,对嵌埋在浓度为1%、深度为2 cm的脂肪乳剂溶液中的金属丝(直径0.4 mm)进行了成像实验,结果表明,菲涅耳波带板无运动卷积偏振选通全息术原理是可行的。     

Production par evaporation sous vide de reseaux zones et lentilles

A simple evaporation technique for the production of unalterable Phase FZP and FZP arrays is described. The method is also usable for Fresnel lens making. Experimental results are given, and the characteristics are compared with those obtainable by zinc sulphide lens direct evaporation.     

Nonmechanical Optical Manipulation of Microparticle Using Spatial Light Modulator

A spatial light modulator (SLM) is introduced to an optical manipulation system. The real-time reconfigurable feature of the SLM makes it possible to perform an optical manipulation of microparticles without mechanical movements of optical parts. A liquid crystal SLM incorporated in the system forms a Fresnel zone plate (FZP). The beam spot generated by the FZP is imaged on a sample solution by reduction optics. A microparticle in the sample solution is trapped by the beam and manipulated by changing the addressing position of the FZP onto the SLM from a computer. The nonmechanical optical manipulation of microparticles is demonstrated for the first time.     

Moiré alignment and positioning using a synthetic Fresnel zone plate

A new method for optical alignment and positioning is proposed. The actual position and shape of a spherical wavefront emerging from an optical system to be aligned are interferometrically encoded as “live” fringes similar to a Fresnel zone plate (FZP). Any in-plane misalignment and inaccurate positioning are detected in real-time as a unique moiré pattern by overlapping the “live” fringes and a synthetic interferometric FZP which is regarded as a reference grating. Experimental data are presented and future applications are suggested.     

光学扫描全息术的推广

给出了光学扫描全息术的基本原理。记录时用实时 FZP与物体强度透射率发生卷积从而产生扫描全息图 ;再现时用与记录时相对应的 FZP与全息图信号发生卷积即可再现出物体的信息。推广了光学扫描全息术 ,提出只要某一实时的光场强度分布函数具有如下性质 :(l)该函数中含有 x,y,z参量且相对于 z参量具有圆对称性 ;(2 )对于某一确定的 z参量 ,该函数的自相关是δ函数 ,就可以把该光场作为光学扫描全息术中的照明光场对物体进行扫描记录以得到扫描全息图。     

Design and analysis of a folded Fresnel Zone Plate antenna

Based on the Kirchhoff-Huygens diffraction theory, a simple analytical method of a planar folded Fresnel zone-plate (FZP), that is the case when a planar reflector is placed behind the zone plates, has been developed. According to the numerical calculation results, the design procedure of the FZP antenna has been presented, and its focusing characteristics and gain-optimized conditions have been discussed. The variations of the focal field distribution with the antenna parameters such as zone numbers, focal length and antenna diameter and the radiation power patterns of the FZP have been simulated numerically. To take a good balance of both receiving and transmitting antennas, at 60GHz operating frequency, the focal length should be designed as a half of the antenna diameter and the zone number should be from 10 to 15. The results in this work show that the folded FZP has good focal characteristics and off-axis performance, and its antenna gain can be optimized by the suitable antenna parameter design. The possibility of applying the folded FZP as a low cost and high gain antenna without strict manufacturing requirement for millimeter-wave communications has been shown.     

A super-resolution Fresnel zone plate and photon sieve

Realizing a smaller or sharper diffractive center spot is a valuable research aim in soft X-ray focus and other related research applications. Fresnel zone plates (FZP) and photon sieves (PS) are often used to focus the X-rays or other wavelength light at present. Here, we show that combination of a super-resolution phase mask (SPM) and an FZP (or PS) as one diffractive optical element can realize a smaller or sharper diffractive center spot without significantly increasing the fabrication difficulty. All these diffractive phase elements can be applied to beam shaping, mask-less lithography, energy congregation in high power lasers, soft X-rays focus, and any other field that requires a smaller or sharper diffractive center spot.     

Directly laser-written integrated photonics devices including diffractive optical elements

Femtosecond laser-written integrated devices involving Fresnel Zone Plates (FZPs) and waveguide arrays are demonstrated as built-in optical couplers. These structures were fabricated in borosilicate glass using a direct laser writing technique. The optical properties of these integrated photonic structures were investigated using CW lasers and high-resolution CCDs. For a single FZP coupled to a single waveguide, the overall coupling efficiency was 9%. A multiplexed optical coupler composed of three FZP layers was demonstrated to couple three waveguides simultaneously in a waveguide array. Structures of this type can be used as platforms for multichannel waveguide coupling elements or as microfluidic sensors that require higher light collecting efficiency.     

Curvilinear Fresnel-Zone Plate Lens Antenna: Vector Radiation Theory

A generalized vector diffraction theory of the half-open curvilinear Fresnel zone plate (FZP) tens antenna that is valid for any lens profile shape is presented. It is an extension to the vector Kirchhoff diffraction theory for the plane half-open FZP lens antenna and is based on the conical-segment lens profile approximation. An equation for the electric far-field vector is derived from which follow the expressions for the co- and cross-polarization radiation patterns and directive gain. The proposed theory is utilized for a numerical analysis and comparison of 140-GHz curvilinear half-open FZP lens antennas grouped in two distinct sets:

Optimization‐free superoscillatory lens using phase and amplitude masks

A superoscillatory focusing lens has been experimentally demonstrated by optimizing Fresnel zone plates (FZP), with limited physical insight as to how the lens feature contributes to the focal formation. It is therefore imperative to establish a generalized viable account for both FZP (amplitude mask) and binary optics (phase mask). Arbitrary superoscillatory spots can now be customized and realized by a realistic optical device, without using optimization. It is counterintuitively found that high spatial frequency with small amplitude and destructive interference are favorable in superfocusing of a superoscillation pattern. The inevitably high sidelobe is pushed 15λ away from the central subwavelength spot, resulting in significantly enlarged field of view for viable imaging applications. This work therefore not only reveals the explicit physical role of any given metallic/dielectric rings but also provides an alternative design roadmap of superresolution imaging. The robust method is readily applicable in superthin longitudinally polarized needle light, quantum physics and information theory.     

Submicrometer hard X‐ray focusing using a single‐bounce ellipsoidal capillary combined with a Fresnel zone plate

A single‐bounce capillary with an ellipsoidal shape has been used for two‐step focusing in combination with a Fresnel zone plate (FZP). The FZP serves as a first microfocusing element and produces a demagnified micrometer image of the source, before the elliptical capillary makes a last final compression of the beam. With 15 keV X‐rays from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility BM5 bending magnet, the two‐step demagnification system produced a focus of about 250 nm with a gain of more than 1000. The use of an ellipsoidal capillary as a micro‐mirror under off‐axis illumination using micro‐prefocusing optics might open up new opportunities in nanofocusing developments.     

菲涅耳编码孔成象研究

编码孔成象(CAI)是一种高分辨率、高信噪比、高集光效率和大视场的成象技术。可适用的技术领域有:脉冲射线成象、实时图象跟踪、层析摄影术(tomography)等高技术领域本文探讨了CAI技术的一般理论,重点讨论了菲涅耳波带片的编码成象及解码复原的原理、方法、实验及处理结果并指出了实验难点及结果误差。     

Compressed sensing with linear-in-wavenumber sampling in spectral-domain optical coherence tomography

We propose a novel method called compressed sensing with linear-in-wavenumber sampling (k-linear CS) to retrieve an image for spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). An array of points that is evenly spaced in wavenumber domain is sampled from an original interferogram by a preset k-linear mask. Then the compressed sensing based on l1 norm minimization is applied on these points to reconstruct an A-scan data. To get an OCT image, this method uses less than 20% of the total data as required in the typical process and gets rid of the spectral calibration with numerical interpolation in traditional CS-OCT. Therefore k-linear CS is favorable for high speed imaging. It is demonstrated that the k-linear CS has the same axial resolution performance with ～30 dB higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as compared with the numerical interpolation. Imaging of bio-tissue by SD-OCT with k-linear CS is also demonstrated.     

Spectral domain optical coherence tomography imaging with an integrated optics spectrometer

We designed and fabricated an arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) in silicon oxynitride as a spectrometer for spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). The AWG has a footprint of only 3.0 cm × 2.5 cm, operates at a center wavelength of 1300 nm, and has 78 nm free spectral range. OCT measurements are performed that demonstrate imaging up to a maximum depth of 1 mm with an axial resolution of 19 μm, both in agreement with the AWG design parameters. Using the AWG spectrometer combined with a fiber-based SD-OCT system, we demonstrate cross-sectional OCT imaging of a multilayered scattering phantom.     

光源尺寸和光谱带宽对波带板成像的影响

X射线菲涅耳波带板成像能实现亚微米空间分辨能力,有可能应用于激光等离子体或聚变靶的高分辨X射线成像诊断.之前的数值模拟研究表明,成像分辨能力受光源尺寸、入射光或成像光谱带宽的影响.本文报道在632.8 nm为中心波长的可见光波段,对波带板成像的数值模拟和原理性验证实验.数值模拟表明:随着扩展光源尺寸增加,视场中央分辨能力基本不变,而像对比度下降;随着成像的光谱带宽的增加,视场中央分辨能力与像对比度同时下降.实验证实了数值模拟的结论,且实验与数值模拟结果的定量比较也符合得较好.