The distortion suffered by the amplitude and phase of a moiré signal when the illuminating beam is not a coherent and monochromatic plane wave has been measured by using different kinds of illuminating sources and a phase-sensitive intensity subtraction technique. A phenomenological model is proposed that explains these effects in terms of an irregular amplitude distribution and a phase evolution of the moiré signal with a grating gap. These effects are of great interest in all the measurement techniques related to the moiré effect, especially when compact light sources such as light-emitting diodes and incandescent lamps are used.
A diffractive optical element was fabricated by monolithically integrating two volume phase-gratings (VPGs) in the bulk of a single-piece transparent material. A computer model of the diffraction generated by the double volume phase-grating (DVPG) was made with a rigorous coupled wave analysis simulator. Simulations and experiments show that the diffractive behavior of a DVPG can be controlled by arranging the relative displacement and the distance between the VPGs according to Talbot self-imaging planes. In order to diffract the total incident light, the phase accumulation in the VPGs has to be π/2, which was achieved by single-scan femtosecond laser processing of a nanocrystal doped glass as the substrate material. Ex situ microscope images of the cross-sections are presented for laser processed lines in the form of VPGs and DVPGs. The far-field diffraction of DVPGs formed by selectively located VPGs was characterized with a monochromatic 633 nm and a supercontinuum white light. Functional designs of high diffraction efficiency with potential applications in photonics were successfully fabricated in a one-step and free of chemicals process.
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