Design of diffractive lenses that generate optical nulls without phase singularities

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 297-304

  Menon, Rajesh ^a,b   Rogge, Paul ^c   Tsai, Hsin Yu ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LumArray Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

DIFFRACTIVE LENS; FABRICATION ERRORS; MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATIONS; PHASE SINGULARITIES;

LENSES;

EID: 60949105170     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.26.000297     Document Type: Article

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