A holographic optical element (HOE) is a kind of diffractive optical element. It can replace an optical system with multiple optical components such as lenses, mirrors, beamsplitters, and prisms. Thus, it is expected to be possible improve performance and reduce the number of optical parts of various optical systems, such as optical storage systems 1) like compact disk or digital versatile disk...

Large-area three-dimensional Penrose-type photonic quasicrystals are fabricated through a holographic lithography method using a lab-made diffractive optical element and a single laser exposure. The diffractive optical element consists of five polymer gratings symmetrically orientated around a central opening. The fabricated Penrose-type photonic quasicrystal shows ten-fold rotational symmetry....

A new type of diffractive optical element for detecting and measuring the power distribution of transverse modes emanating from radially symmetric laser resonators is presented. It is based on a relatively simple straightforward design of a phase-only diffractive optical element that serves as a matched filter, which correlates between specific prerecorded transverse modes with a certain azimut...

We analyze the properties of Generalized Phase Contrast (GPC) when the input phase modulation is implemented using diffractive gratings. In GPC applications for patterned illumination, the use of a dynamic diffractive optical element for encoding the GPC input phase allows for on-the-fly optimization of the input aperture parameters according to desired output characteristics. For wavefront sen...

Currently, cylindrical beams with radial or azimuthal polarization are being used successfully for the optical manipulation of micro- and nano-particles as well as in microscopy, lithography, nonlinear optics, materials processing, and telecommunication applications. The creation of these laser beams is carried out using segmented polarizing plates, subwavelength gratings, interference, or ligh...

In this paper we are molding the phase profile of a Gaussian beam in order to achieve a phase singularity called optical vortex. For this purpose, we apply the beam shaping technique for a 635 nm wavelength radiation using a diffractive optical element with high diffractive efficiency. We use reflective spiral phase plates and fork-like computer generated holograms, fabricated with photolithogr...

A diffractive optical element based on a nonlinear-optical ferroelectric single crystal has been proposed, synthesized, and experimentally characterized. The allows fast modulation of transverse modes Gaussian laser beam.

We describe the design of Fourier type array generators and beam shapers as periodic configurations refractive-diffractive optical elements in microscale to provide specific shaping imaging functionaliies. investigate how addition micro-nanostructures regular microstructure arrays enables new degrees freedom for micro-optical systems, combination with adapted fabrication techniques yields a bet...