1997
DOI: 10.1364/ao.36.004744
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Diffractive lenses for chromatic confocal imaging

Abstract: A diffractive zone plate provides a highly linear wavelength-to-depth coding, allowing for nonmechanical depth scanning in a confocal microscope. This chromatic confocal microscope, constructed with 40x and 60x objectives, achieves axial position changes of 55 and 25 mum, respectively, for a wavelength tuning range of 100 nm. The corresponding longitudinal point-spread functions are measured and shown to possess full-width half-maximums of 2.52 and 2.23 mum, respectively. Two-dimensional profiles of a two-phas… Show more

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“…Aso, it enables simple elements replication in order to form both spherical and aspherical wavefront sets, making diffractive optic's elements useful for different applications. The majority of studies consider diffractive optical elements either as additional elements for the compensation of aberrations of a refractive imaging system [4,5], or as elements for focusing on a particular area [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. For example, in [6,7] longitudinal intensity distribution for a coherent case is considered, [8] considers the process of a plane wave focus using a Fresnel lens, and [9] researches methods of compensation of DOE chromatic aberration.…”
Section: Fig 1 Membrane Optical Imager For Real-time Exploitation Pmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Aso, it enables simple elements replication in order to form both spherical and aspherical wavefront sets, making diffractive optic's elements useful for different applications. The majority of studies consider diffractive optical elements either as additional elements for the compensation of aberrations of a refractive imaging system [4,5], or as elements for focusing on a particular area [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. For example, in [6,7] longitudinal intensity distribution for a coherent case is considered, [8] considers the process of a plane wave focus using a Fresnel lens, and [9] researches methods of compensation of DOE chromatic aberration.…”
Section: Fig 1 Membrane Optical Imager For Real-time Exploitation Pmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In principle, any dispersive device could be used as the chromatic objective, such as diffractive lenses (Dobson 1997, Lin 1998 or dynamic wavelength tuning systems. However, the quality of the dispersion and the cost of non-conventional objectives rules out their use in commercial systems.…”
Section: Chromatic Objectivementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, they enable the formation of light beams with properties that can not otherwise be obtained by classical optical refractive elements. However, DOE are characterised by significant chromatic aberration, which can have both negative and positive impacts upon the imaging system [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%