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Designing with Diffractives

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Software that includes scalar diffraction efficiency calculations for diffractive optical elements simplifies the design process and enables the creation of optimized optical systems.

David M. Hasenauer and Jay Wilson, Optical Research Associates

Diffractive optical elements offer the optical system designer powerful and often unique functionality in a compact package. For example, diffraction gratings can produce a large angular spread between closely spaced wavelengths, making them useful as dispersive elements in spectrometers and in wavelength division multiplexers (WDM). The performance characteristics of holographic optical elements, kinoforms and binary diffractives can be highly customized, permitting their use in applications ranging from correcting color aberration to beam shaping. Performing optical design with...Read full article

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    Published: February 2006
    Featuresindustrialoptical elementsscalar diffraction efficiency calculationsspectroscopy

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