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Study of focusing into closely spaced spots via illuminating a diffractive optical element by a short-pulse laser beam
S.N. Khonina, S.A. Degtyarev, A.P. Porfirev, O.Yu. Moiseev, S.D. Poletaev, A.S. Larkin, A.B. Savelyev-Trofimov

 

Image Processing Systems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences,

Samara State Aerospace University,

Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

 

DOI: 10.18287/0134-2452-2015-39-2-187-196

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Abstract:
We perform a comparative numerical study of the formation of closely spaced focal spots in the focal plane with diffraction gratings and binary optical elements matched with the Hermite-Gaussian modes. It is shown that low-index modes provide the generation of good-quality focal spots and relative tolerance to chromatic dispersion. Experiments with pulsed and tunable lasers have shown that phase optical elements matched with TEM(1,0) and TEM(1,1) modes show promise for creation of arrays of closely spaced focal spots.

Keywords:
focusing into focal spot arrays, diffractive optical element, binary phase, short laser pulses, chromatic dispersion.

Citation:
Khonina SN, Degtyarev SA, Porfirev AP, Moiseev OYu, Poletaev SD, Larkin AS, Savelyev-Trofimov AB. Study of focusing into closely spaced spots at illuminating diffractive optical element by short pulse laser beam. Computer Optics 2015; 39(2): 187-196. DOI: 10.18287/0134-2452-2015-39-2-187-196.

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