Experimental and theoretical evaluation of the efficiency of an off-axis volume holographic lens

The properties of a high-efficiency lens, fabricated in bleached photographic emulsion, are discussed. A symmetric off-axis configuration is adopted, and approximately uniform dielectric-constant modulation is achieved. The lens is tested using a probe beam of small diameter. Experimental results are presented for replay under on- and off-Bragg conditions, both in air and under index-matched conditions. 59±3% efficiency is achieved across the lens aperture. Variations in efficiency are attributed to rotation of fringe planes, and results are compared with local one-dimensional theory.     

Autofocusing of digital holographic microscopy based on off-axis illuminations

An auto-focusing method for digital holographic microscopy has been proposed by employing two off-axis illumination beams. When specimens are illuminated by two plane waves in different directions, it is found that the farther the reconstruction plane is from the image plane, the wider the two reconstructed images are separated from each other. Thus, the image plane can be determinated by finding the minimum of the variation between the two reconstructed object waves on both the amplitude and phase distributions. The feasibility of the proposed method is demonstrated by the corresponding simulation and experiment.     

Tailoring light structures using an off-axis double axicon holographic pattern

We propose a new method for tailoring light structures using a double axicon holographic pattern. The light structure can be tailored using pairs of Bessel modes with different angular momentum indices, and changed into an optical wheel by combining two copropagating Bessel beams. We also demonstrated that the optical wheel obtained from a pair of Bessel beams had rotation feature over the propagation distance by introducing different axial wavenumbers between the two modes.     

Effect of aberrations on off-axis gaussian beams

The effect of aberrations of an optical system on gaussian beams is analyzed. If an incident position of the beams of the optical system does not coincide with the center of its pupil, the beams suffer from aberrations differently in accordance with the various incident positions. The Strehl definition of the beams is studied as a function of the incident position of the beams and the kind of abberations present in the optical system.     

一种单色全息平板波导显示系统的研究

设计了一种由耦出线性全息光栅和耦入体全息光栅组成的单色全息平板波导显示系统。该系统的工作原理是微型显示器发出的单色图像光波信息经过准直透镜后,通过耦入体全息光栅和耦出线性光栅把图像光波信息从平板玻璃的一端耦入,另外一端耦出,最终在出瞳位置进入人眼。介绍了全息光栅的特点,利用耦合波理论与K矢量闭合法理论推导全息光栅的视场角,同时介绍了全息光栅的设计方法,该方法是通过分束镜将激光分为物光波和参考光波,且按照一定的入射角度在全息干板上发生干涉来实现。模拟仿真结果表明:该系统显示视场角为18°×14°,出瞳距离为30 mm,传递函数MTF在30 lp/mm时均在0.3以上,满足目视系统的使用要求,可以应用于新一代头盔显示系统中。     

Full off-axis red-green-blue digital holographic microscope with LED illumination

We developed a new full off-axis red-green-blue (RGB) digital holographic microscope with an LED illumination. A decisive advantage of the use of LED illumination is a large image quality improvement due to its partially coherent nature. The off-axis configuration enables the fast recording of the holographic data in each spectral channel. The digital holographic refocusing and the optical phase map computation are successfully demonstrated. The multiwavelength operation provides a significant improvement of the collected information for colored samples.     

Color holographic zoom system based on a liquid lens

In this Letter, we propose a color holographic zoom system based on a liquid lens. We use the spatial multiplexing method to realize color reconstruction. By controlling the focal lengths of the liquid lens and the encoded digital lens on the spatial light modulator panel, we can change the magnification of the reconstructed image very quickly, without mechanical parts and keeping the output plane stationary.     

基于波前像差的个性化人工晶体设计

在个性化人眼光学结构的基础上,运用ZEMAX软件的优化功能,设计了符合实际人眼光学特性的个性化人工晶体。该人工晶体不仅可以矫正离焦和像散,还引入了非球面可以矫正人眼的球差。文中将个性化人工晶体优化后得到的屈光度与经验公式计算得到的屈光度作了比较,在经验公式0.25D精确度的基础上有了提高,并直观地描述了个性化人工晶体植入前后人眼调制度和分辨率的变化情况。对样本人眼矫正后人眼分辨率最大变化由28 L/mm提高到118 L/mm,调制度由0.02提高至0.51。分析结果表明,个性化植入人工晶体的方法可以提高人眼矫正的精确度,不同人眼的波前特性不同,矫正效果也有相应的差异。     

Rough surface characterization using off-axis digital holographic microscopy compensated with self-hologram rotation

In this paper, an off-axis digital holographic microscopy compensated with self-hologram rotation is presented. The process is implemented via subtracting the unwrapped phase maps of the off-axis parabolic hologram and its rotation 180° to eliminate the tilt induced by the angle between the spherical object wave O and the plane reference wave R. Merit of the proposed method is that it can be done without prior knowledge of physical parameters and hence can reconstruct a parabolic hologram of 1024 × 768 pixels within tens of milliseconds since it doesn't require a digital reference wave. The method is applied to characterize rough gold bumps and the obtained results were compared with those extracted from the conventional reconstruction method. The comparison showed that the proposed method can characterize rough surfaces with excellent contrast and in real-time. Merit of the proposed method is that it can be used for monitoring smaller biological cells and micro-fluidic devices.     

Multiplexer/demultiplexer in optical communications based on a holographic Fresnel lens

A holographic Fresnel lens for coarse wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) application in 1300 nm band is described. Letter paper focuses on minimizing the third-order aberrations for off-axis operation of the lens in order to reduce channel spacing and insertion loss. Improved characteristics have been obtained for the lens fabricated according to the theoretical design.     

A Passband-Flattened EDG Demultiplexer with an Air-Trenched Taper

A novel passband flattening method for a planar waveguide demultiplexer based on an etched diffraction grating is presented. A strongly confined taper is formed by etching air trenches at both sides of the input waveguide. The geometric parameters of the taper are optimized by considering the figure of merit, ripple, and loss. Numerical simulation for a design example is given to illustrate the passband flattening method.     

A Passband-Flattened EDG Demultiplexer with an Air-Trenched Taper

A novel passband flattening method for a planar waveguide demultiplexer based on an etched diffraction grating is presented. A strongly confined taper is formed by etching air trenches at both sides of the input waveguide. The geometric parameters of the taper are optimized by considering the figure of merit, ripple, and loss. Numerical simulation for a design example is given to illustrate the passband flattening method.     

A flat field holographic lens with no first order astigmatism

By a suitable choice of the position of the stop, holographic lenses which are free from first order astigmatism are obtained. Furthermore it is found that these lenses are flat field for all pairs of conjugates for all field angles.     

Comparison of the angular selectivity characteristics for an off-axis holographic storage system calculated by Born approximation and coupled-wave theory

The first Born approximation is applied to calculate the angular selectivity for different positions on the reconstructed image as a function of the object beam's optical axis angle theta(ob) and reference beam angle theta(rw) for a holographic data storage system that records the Fourier transform holograms in a medium with an infinite plane-wave reference beam. Results are compared with those calculated by the coupled-wave theory.     

Design of an all-optical logic sequence generator based on polarization holographic gratings

In this Letter, an all-optical logic sequence generator based on two different polarization holographic gratings has been proposed and demonstrated, which has one input port and four output ports. The polarization state of input light signal determines logic output signals. It can produce four kinds of logic sequence output signals:1000, 0100, 0010, and 0001, corresponding to the input light signal of four different polarization states: the p-linear, s-linear, left-handed circular, and right-handed circular. The two polarization gratings have been fabricated, and the working principle of the logic sequence generator has been proved by diffraction pattern analysis of polarization gratings.     

Wave front reconstruction of Fresnel off-axis holograms with compensation of aberrations by means of phase-shifting digital holography

Off-axis holograms recorded with a CCD camera are numerically reconstructed in amplitude by calculating through the Fresnel–Kirchhoff integral. A phase-shifting Mach–Zehnder interferometer is used for recording four-quadrature phase-shifted off-axis holograms. The basic principle of this technique and its experimental verification are described. We show that the application of this algorithm allows for the suppression of the zero order of diffraction and of the twin image and that the contrast of the reconstructed images can be further enhanced by digital compensation of the aberrations introduced by the holographic recording system     

基于声透镜成像系统的光声层析成像

光声成像是采用“光激发-超声波成像”的新型成像技术，它是检测强散射介质内部光吸收分布的一种有效医学影像技术.用短脉冲激光照射强散射介质(如生物组织)，强散射介质由于光声效应产生超声信号，使用具有成像能力的声透镜把声压分布成像于像面上，然后利用具有空间分辨能力的阵列光声传感器，把同一像面上的光声信号强度记录下来，最后根据光声信号强度的空间分布进行图像重组.根据成像系统物像共轭原理，同一物平面的光声信号到达像面的时延相等，而不同物面的光声信号到达同一个探测器平面的时延各不相同，因此，利用BOXCAR的门控积分 关键词： 光声层析成像 声透镜 光声信号     

Design of an off-axis XR photovoltaic concentrator with SMS method

We present a novel off-axis XR concentrator design that enables a high efficiency energy collection while avoiding the shadowing problem encountered in the designs of symmetry XR type concentrator. Combining with a 1 cm² multi-junction solar cell, the off-axis XR concentrator is able to achieve high optical efficiency of the photovoltaic system. The concentrator design is performed based on the non-imaging optic principle, with one reflective mirror (X) and one refractive lens (R). Both surfaces of the reflective and refractive element are of freeform shapes and fitted as freeform expression in the design analysis. The concentrator has concentration ratio greater than 500× and acceptance angle greater than 2°. A square homogenizing irradiance distribution on the cell is achieved with the help of a suitable rob. The tolerance of the system is analyzed. The results show that the high concentration ratio and greater acceptance angle relax all optical and mechanical tolerances reduce the production and operation cost.