激光显示照明光路中复眼透镜的设计

设计激光投影机光学系统需要从如何减小光学系统的体积和提高激光光源的光效两个方面考虑。研究了激光显示照明系统中的复眼透镜,并对设计的复眼小透镜矩形单元进行了优化,发现在复眼透镜整体尺寸和单颗复眼小透镜焦距一定的情况下,整个复眼透镜上的阵列越多,即复眼透镜上蜂窝的数量越多,其匀光效果就越好,且此时投影机系统的体积也较小。为了提高激光光源的光效,设计中对复眼透镜在不同数值孔径照明光束下的匀光效果进行了讨论。并对优化设计后的复眼透镜进行40 000条光线追迹,实验显示其光线透过率可以达到92.5%,且几乎无杂散光。     

一次透镜封装的单片集成LED光源北大核心CSCD

在使用LED作为照明光源的过程中,光场作为LED应用中的关键因素,一般使用二次光学系统进行调控。但是二次光学系统一般设计复杂、体积大、重量重,随着LED光学封装系统朝着小型化方向发展,二次光学系统的应用将会变得困难。结合软件仿真和实验验证探索了用于单片集成发光二极管(MI-LED)的一次光学透镜的光场调控功能。研究结果表明,仿真和实验LED光源的光场几乎重合一致,所设计的一次透镜将LED光源的光束角从120°调控到48°~72°范围内。与未加一次透镜的LED光源相比,加一次透镜的LED光源具有更高的光提取效率和更均匀的空间光色分布。     

Transverse superresolution with extended depth of focus using binary phase filters for optical storage system

This paper reports the study of superresolution and extension of depth of focus (DOF) of three-zone binary phase filters (BPFs) under high numerical aperture (NA) focusing. Two three-zone BPFs (BPF1 and BPF2) are specially designed to achieve transverse superresolution and extension of DOF simultaneously for the optical disc system with an objective lens of NA = 0.65. Numerical simulations based on the vectorial diffraction theory indicate that the transverse focal spot size of this system can be as small as that of NA = 0.85 and its DOF is as large as that of NA = 0.6 with acceptable Strehl ratios (> 0.4 for BPF1 and > 0.35 for BPF2) and low side-lobe intensity ratios (< 10%) by using these BPFs. It suggests that the storage capacity of this optical storage system may be improved to the same as that of a system with an objective lens of NA = 0.85. Moreover, the strict requirement of the focusing servo system caused by decreasing wavelength or employing higher NA objective lens can be mitigated. Therefore, these BPFs presented in this paper should be highly interesting for applications of high density optical data storage.     

基于简单透镜列阵的可调焦激光均匀辐照光学系统研究

本文对基于简单透镜列阵的大口径激光均匀辐照光学系统的调焦能力进行了研究, 结果表明, 改变透镜列阵与靶镜之间的距离即可方便地改变靶面上光斑的大小. 文中详细分析了相关参数对调焦能力的影响, 并在此基础上设计出一个实用的光学系统. 用数值方法模拟了激光束通过光学系统后的传输, 发现尺寸不同的靶面光斑具有基本一致的强度结构特征. 定量地分析了光斑内部散斑间隔、调制对比度、顶部不均匀度及能量集中度等描述光斑均匀辐照质量的指标, 并研究了它们随靶面离焦量的变化关系.     

Magneto-controlled illumination with opto-fluidics

Imaging of micro- and nanofluidics is a challenge since the size of the channels is so small that the installment of additional optical and mechanical switches is very difficult. The size of the device and associated increase in viscous dissipation constitute another constraint. In response to these limitations, this work proposes and demonstrates the manipulation of light by adding a functional lens to control the light on demand. In the present work, this lens is realized by filling a hollow fiber with a colloid of superparamagnetic Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles. When the propagation of light is perpendicular to the magnetic field, this lens stretches the circular beam into a ribbon yielding a larger visible area. Potentially, one can apply a rotating magnetic field thus illuminating a larger spot size or creating other beam geometries. Such composite fibers might also be of value for Faraday isolation and other magneto-optic effects in optical fibers.     

A clustered speckle approach to optical trapping

An in situ study of the clustered speckle 3D structure using an optical tweezer setup is presented. Clustered speckles appear when a coherently illuminated diffuser is imaged through a pupil mask with several apertures, properly distributed over a closed path, which is placed before the objective lens of a standard optical trapping system. Thus, light volumes are reduced several times when compared with standard speckles, being even smaller than the focus volume of a Gaussian beam commonly used to trap. Moreover, clustered speckles have odd statistical properties which differentiated it from standard speckles. Then, geometrically ordered multiple trapping arrays, with statistical random distribution of intensities, can be created with this technique. This fact could enable different studies concerning optical binding or new developments in coherent matter wave transport where Optical Trapping has been proven with standard speckles. In this work, a qualitative analysis of clustered speckles in an optical tweezer setup relative to the number of apertures in the mask and their size is carried on. Besides, in the Rayleigh regime, a general quantitative method to characterize the trapping capability of an optical field is proposed. Then, it is applied to clustered speckles. As a result, a relation between aperture size and the maximum size of the particles that could be trapped is found. This fact opens the possibility of engineering the statistic of the trapped particles by properly selecting the pupil mask.     

激光位移传感器的光学系统设计

针对目前国内自主研制的激光位移传感器精度低,测量范围小等问题,提出了一种采用光学设计软件预先仿真整个激光位移传感器光学系统的方法。在分析系统各部分的光学特性的基础上,结合具体要求设计了一个激光位移传感器的光学系统,其工作范围为（50±10）mm。采用系统分割的方法,将整个光学系统分为两部分进行设计,第一部分是激光束的整形透镜,要求在有效的工作范围内得到小而均匀的出射光斑,设计结果表明,在测量范围内,光斑大小能够控制在10-1mm量级;另一部分是被测面散射光接收的成像物镜,该系统的特点是物面和像面相对于光轴都有一定的角度,实验结果表明其成像满足Scbeimpflug条件。     

基于菲涅耳透镜阵列的红外气体传感器

菲涅耳透镜同时具有分光与会聚特性, 且体积小、重量轻和易复制, 使其在光谱检测中得到逐步应用, 但典型光谱成像仪采用菲涅耳透镜沿光轴扫描的方法来获得连续谱线, 不利于光谱仪的稳定性。考虑到气体探测需求, 选用多通道方式来获得多光谱, 提出了一种基于菲涅耳透镜阵列的新型红外气体传感器, 可实现吸收波长在3～5 μm的CO2,CO,CH4,SO2气体的实时检测。利用球面波的传输理论和瑞利判据, 推导了菲涅耳透镜光谱分辨率与透镜结构参数之间的函数关系, 并以光谱分辨率小于50nm为性能指标, 对1μm工艺的8台阶菲涅耳透镜阵列的结构参数进行了计算和误差分析。结果表明, 透镜阵列所需焦距为47.84 mm, 平均数值孔径大于0.4。     

Quasi Bessel beam by Billet's N-split lens

This study utilizes the focal property of a classical Billet's split lens to create more focal points by splitting the lens. This approach distributes the focal points circularly on the focal plane. This study explores the characteristics of beam propagation and analytically derives the asymptotic characteristics of beam propagation based on the stationary phase approximation and the moment-free Filon-type method. Results show that the unique Billet's N-split lens can generate a quasi Bessel beam if the number of splitting N is large enough, e.g., N ≧ 24. This study also explores the diffraction efficiency of corresponding quasi Bessel beam and the influence of aperture size. The potential advantage of proposed split lens approach is that, unlike the classical means of annular aperture, this simple lens approach allows a much larger throughput in creating the Bessel beam and hence the Bessel beam could have more optical energy.     

An f-Theta Lens Design for Bio-Medical System: Laser Scanning Microarray Reader

Laser scanning technology has put in microarray image system for its characteristic of non-contact measurement, high performance, and good sensitivities for the development of bio-technology. In the requirement of metrology, microarray biochip image has become more precisely and non-contact measurement like optical detector or ultra wave sensor is plenty applied in the imaging system. The paper provides the new type construction of laser con-focal microarray scanning and fluorescent detection system. The enabling key component, f-theta lenses, is designed as micro-meter focusing scanning lens. The scanner exploits the functional advantages and the optical system has small spot size, great linearity and large depth of focus. The system is expected to be simply operate, small hardware size, and fast speed. The optical design of the scanning lenses and the fabrication of scanner are also introduced and discussed     

Tunable optofluidic aperture configured by a liquid-core/liquid-cladding structure

Miniaturized and tunable optical components, such as the waveguide, lens, and prism, have been of great interest for lab-on-chip systems. This Letter reports an optofluidic aperture stop formed by the liquid-core/liquid-cladding flow. The aperture size can be tuned accordingly by adjusting the flow rates. Manipulation of the aperture size allows control of the amount of light passing through the corresponding optical system as well as the angular aperture on the image side. This optofluidic aperture enables lab-on-chip optical systems to have a greater flexibility and more functionalities.     

镜面偏心测量光学系统设计及其杂光分析

为了解决现有镜面偏心测量设备存在的问题,本文研究了一种采用切换镜头和调焦相结合的方法来设计的镜面偏心测量光学系统,使用这个光学系统,既能使被测镜面的曲率半径扩展到-∞~+∞范围,又能保证测量精度。通过Lighttools软件对这个光学系统进行光线追迹,分析其杂光分布,结果表明:准直镜头内部多次反射产生的杂光强度很低,可以忽略。而当被测镜头中存在相邻球心像距的镜面时,产生的杂光强度比较大,在后续的图像处理过程中,必须增强目标图像的对比度。利用研制的镜面偏心测量设备进行测量实验,结果进一步验证了杂光分析的正确性。     

Propagation properties of Gaussian beams through cat eye optical lens with center shelter

Based on the method of matrix decomposition and expanding the aperture function into a sum of finite complex Gaussian functions, the analytical propagation equations of Gaussian beams through cat eye optical lens with center shelter are derived. Through numerical calculation, the laws governing the variation of the intensity distribution of the cat eye reflected light with the center shelter ratio and the diameter of the detector at the focal plane are given. The results show that the diffraction series and the intensity of the cat eye reflected light depend strongly on the center shelter ratio. As a further extension, it is found that the eye optical lens can be interpreted as a spatial filter, and different filter effect can be obtained by changing the pinhole size.     

棱镜分光光谱仪的光学系统设计与光谱特性计算

设计了离轴全球面成像光谱仪和离轴校正透镜棱镜分光成像光谱仪两种光学系统.在离轴全球面成像光谱仪的基础上,提出了改进型离轴校正透镜光谱仪,仅采用一个色散棱镜,避免了大口径同心透镜;有效校正了大视场像差,色散非线性修正效果显著.通过调节离轴角和光谱仪的焦距控制了畸变,补偿了与波长相关的狭缝弯曲,减小了残余像差,并降低了整个光谱仪工程实施的难度.从工程合理性、加工可实现性和光学性能等方面比较了两个系统的特点,推导和给出了光谱分辨率和狭缝弯曲的计算结果.从设计结果看,改进型离轴校正透镜光谱仪的传递函数最小值大于75％,而离轴全球面成像光谱仪的最小值只大于60％.从加工难易程度看,离轴全球面成像光谱仪采用一个接近Φ200 mm的石英透镜,其透射材料远不如改进型离轴校正透镜光谱仪透镜材料的均匀性和面形准确度高,而且大口径透镜大大增加了制备难度和成本.从工程布局看,改进型离轴校正透镜光谱仪充分考虑了与机械结构的匹配,狭缝与第一面反射镜的轴向距离较合理.从光谱特性看,两个光学系统的光谱分辨率结果基本接近,离轴全球面成像光谱仪光谱弯曲结果略好于离轴校正透镜结构.因此,综合比较得出离轴校正透镜光谱仪是最佳的选择方案,该系统可应用在短波红外波段的光谱成像的遥感探测.     

Finite size panoramic optical system integrated design

Aiming at the present situation of the panoramic target detection field, one laser target panoramic optical system on finite size is designed. The laser transmission optical system proposes a partition beam layout method, namely 360° omnidirectional detection can be realized by 6 fan-shaped light beams with 60° × 1° field angle. The receiving system position and size can be determined based on calculation the transformation of the Gaussian beam through the lens. After the computing and optimizing the lens curvature radius and other optical parameters, the integrated design of the transmission and receiving optical system is completed. The system echo signal experiment is carried out, and the experimental results show the error of the actual value and theoretical value is less than 4.8%. The system works stably and the anticipated design effect is achieved.     

基于微分方程数值解的自由曲面透镜的设计

为满足目标面上均匀照明的需求,设计了一款自由曲面透镜。根据LED光源的发光特点,结合光学成像的特性,非成像光学原理和能量守恒定理,推导出实现光能量在目标面上均匀分布的自由曲面面形的微分方程,采用matlab的ode算法求出面形上的离散坐标点,对离散坐标点拟合后得到透镜模型,通过光学模拟仿真软件对透镜模型进行光线追迹。结果表明,配光角度为80°的透镜,透镜的口径与光源发光面宽度之比大于等于9时,目标面上的照度均匀性大于0.9,光能利用率约为85%。该设计方法可以快速精确地设计出所需的透镜,而且透镜结构紧凑,单颗就能实现均匀照明,有利于LED光源照明系统的小型化。     

Effect of the geometry of the aberration focusing of a convex-flat lens on the angular parameters of the second optical harmonic

The dependences of focal length F of an actual convex-flat lens on radius ρ of its annular zone and distance x (the magnitude of the transverse spherical aberration) of the intersection of rays on angle α between a beam emerging from a certain annular zone of the lens and the optical axis of the system are determined by means of normals and tangents. The results from investigating the correlation between the geometric optical parameters of the focusing convex-flat lens and the spatial-angular parameters of light converted in a nonlinear crystal (the optical second harmonic) are presented.     

The origin of the super-resolution via a nonlinear thin film

In laser applications, resolutions beyond the diffraction limit can be obtained with a thin film of strong optical nonlinear effect. The optical index of the silicon thin film is modified with the incident laser beam as a function of the local field intensity n(r)∼E²(r). For ultrathin films of thickness d?λ, the transmitted light through the film forms a profile of annular rings. Therefore, the device can be related to the realization of super-resolution with annular pupils. Theoretical analysis shows that the focused light spot appears significantly reduced in comparison with the diffraction limit that is determined by the laser wavelength and the numerical aperture of the converging lens. Analysis on the additional optical transfer function due to the thin film confirms that the resolving power is improved in the high spatial frequency region.     

Frequency tripling of convergent beam employing crystals tiling in large-aperture high-energy laser facilities

In inertial confinement fusion, ultraviolet laser damage of the fused silica lens is an important limiting factor for load capability of the laser driver. To solve this problem, a new configuration of frequency tripling is proposed in this paper. The frequency tripling crystal is placed on downstream of the focusing lens, thus sum frequency generation of fundamental frequency light and doubling frequency light occurs in the beam convergence path. The focusing lens is only irradiated by fundamental light and doubling frequency lights. Thus, its damage threshold will increase. LiB₃O₅ (LBO) crystals are employed as frequency tripling crystals for its larger acceptance angle and higher damage threshold than KDP/DKDP crystals’. With the limitation of acceptance angle and crystal growth size are taken into account, the tiling scheme of LBO crystals is proposed and designed optimally to adopt to the total convergence angle of 36.0 mrad. Theoretical results indicate that 3 LBO crystals titling with different cutting angles in θ direction can meet the phase matching condition. Compared with frequency tripling of parallel beam using one LBO crystal, 83.8% (93.1% with 5 LBO crystals tiling) of the frequency tripling conversion efficiency can be obtained employing this new configuration. The results of a principle experiment also support this scheme. By employing this new design, not only the load capacity of a laser driver will be significantly improved, but also the fused silica lens can be changed to K9 glass lens which has the mature technology and low cost.     

Tight focusing of circularly polarized beam over high NA lens axicon with a diffractive optical element

We propose to use diffractive optical element in combination with high NA lens axicon to achieve a high depth of focus when illuminated by a circularly polarized beam. With this kind of system, the focal depth is increased to 12.816λ and the magnetic spot size is reduced to 0.3764λ. However, in the conventional lens with same NA, the FWHM of the magnetic spot is found to be 0.4308λ and its corresponding magnetization depth is only 0.888λ. The author expects that such a high focal depth strong longitudinal magnetic field with large magnetization depth can be widely used in high density magneto optic recording, laser machining, laser cutting and the scanning near-field magnetic microscope.