High-resolution amplitude and phase gratings in atom optics

Integrated Optics Using High Contrast Gratings

High contrast grating (HCG) is a new class of optical grating with many distinct features that are not found in conventional gratings [1–6]. These features include broadband ultrahigh reflectivity, broadband ultrahigh transmission, or very high quality factor resonance, for optical beam surface-normal or in oblique incidence to the direction of grating periodicity. Furthermore, these features c...

High-resolution, high-reflectivity operation of lamellar multilayer amplitude gratings: identification of the single-order regime.

High resolution while maintaining high peak reflectivities can be achieved for Lamellar Multilayer Amplitude Gratings (LMAG) in the soft-x-ray (SXR) region. Using the coupled waves approach (CWA), it is derived that for small lamellar widths only the zeroth diffraction order needs to be considered for LMAG performance calculations, referred to as the single-order regime. In this regime, LMAG pe...

Amplitude and phase representation of monochromatic fields in physical optics.

The conservation equation for a monochromatic field with arbitrary polarization propagating in an inhomogeneous transparent medium is expressed in terms of amplitude and phase variables. The expressions obtained for linearly polarized fields are compared with the results obtained in the eikonal approximation. The electric field wave equation is written in terms of intensity and phase variables....

Quantum and Atom Optics

Chirped Gratings in Integrated Optics

Gratings with variable periods (chirped gratings) have been fabricated by recording the interference pattern of a collimated laser beam with a converging beam generated by a cylindrical lens. An analysis is presented for the behavior of the chirped gratings as a function of wavelength, the angle between the illuminating beams, the F number of the lens, and its position. To calculate the power r...