Fraunhofer diffraction on the multilevel (quantized) spiral phase plate
A.A. Kovalev, V.V. Kotlyar

Image Processing Systems Institute оf the RAS, Samara, Russia,
Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU), Samara, Russia

Full text of article: Russian language.

Abstract:
We obtain an analytical expression in the form of a finite sum of plane waves that describes the paraxial scalar Fraunhofer diffraction of a limited plane wave by a multilevel (quantized) spiral phase plate (SPP). For several numbers of SPP, we numerically obtain the minimal number of sectors of the multilevel SPP whereby the root-mean-square deviation between the Fraunhofer diffraction patterns for multilevel and continuous SPP does not exceed 2%.

Key words:
multilevel spiral phase plate,  Fraunhofer diffraction, plane wave.

Citation:
Kovalev AA, Kotlyar VV. Fraunhofer diffraction on the multilevel (quantized) spiral phase plate [In Russian]. Computer Optics 2007; 31(3): 9-13.

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