Physical Optics Analysis Of Gradient Index Optics

Shiow-Hwei Hwang; George N. Lawrence

doi:10.1117/12.962999

22 December 1989 Physical Optics Analysis Of Gradient Index Optics

Shiow-Hwei Hwang, George N. Lawrence

Proceedings Volume 1168, Current Developments in Optical Engineering and Commercial Optics; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.962999
Event: 33rd Annual Technical Symposium, 1989, San Diego, United States

Abstract

A simple method based on paraxial optics is presented which facilitates diffraction propagation cal-culations in all types of optical systems which have modest amounts of aberration, i.e. near-stigmatic systems. It is not only possible to apply the beam propagation method accurately to stigmatic GRIN media but a propagation distance of any length may be taken without using the split-step method. Studies of GRIN components have largely been either strictly geometrical in nature [2] or based on the split-step procedure. A recent publication has argued that the beam propagation method using split-step techniques has fundamental flaws in treating strongly inhomogeneous media such as Maxwell's fisheye lens [3]. The ABCD methods as popularized by Siegman [1 ! and others to treat paraxial optics, gaussian beams and diffraction propagation form the basis the generalized ABCD method.

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Shiow-Hwei Hwang and George N. Lawrence "Physical Optics Analysis Of Gradient Index Optics", Proc. SPIE 1168, Current Developments in Optical Engineering and Commercial Optics, (22 December 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.962999

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