An optical system with aberrations on diffraction integrals written in terms of a generalized ABCD matrix

• Authors: Chaoying Zhao , Weihan Tan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Abstract: In this paper, we consider the transformation of a ray beam as it passes through an optical system containing a glass plate with parallel surfaces inclined to the optical axis at the Brewster’s angle, by investigating the effects of the optical system on amplitude and phase distributions. By applying generalized matrix optics and diffraction integrals and considering the influence of a quarter of a wavelength of aberration on the transmitted amplitude and phase distributions at the focus of a de-collimating lens, we find that the central peak amplitude descends from 1.0 to 0.8 and the phase distortion is less than π/2. The general feature of the amplitude distribution shows an elongation along the y-axis perpendicular to the optical axis in the direction of tilt of the inclined plate, and conforms to the inclination direction of the glass plate.

Keywords

EN

generalized matrix optics; diffraction integral; aberrations

Discipline

• 42.15.Eq: Optical system design
• 42.15.Fr: Aberrations
• 42.15.-i: Geometrical optics

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 895-902

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2008

online

27 - 9 - 2008

Contributors

author

Chaoying Zhao

• The School of Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hang Zhou, 310018, China

author

Weihan Tan

• Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-008-0120-3