Analytic approach for optimal quantization of diffractive optical elements

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 26, 1999, Pages 5527-5532

  Levy, Uriel ^a   Cohen, Nadav ^a   Mendlovic, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ETCHING; LENSES; MASKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS (DOE); FRESNEL LENS; MEAN-SQUARED ERROR (MSE) ANALYSIS; MULTILEVEL RELIEF STRUCTURES;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0032620073     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.005527     Document Type: Article

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