Broadband diffractive lens

Conference · Tue May 28 00:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5148584

Ceglio, N M; Hawryluk, A M; London, R A; Seppala, L G ^[1]; Gaines, D P ^[2]

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1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
2. Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT (USA)

Significant progress has been made toward solving the century-old problem of chromatic aberrations in diffractive optics. Our approach exploits modern materials and microfabrication technology and is very different from the purely diffractive strategy,'' which is commonly employed and which results in multiple diffractive elements separated by a finite distance. We have developed a Fresnel zone plate lens comprised of a serial stack of patterned minus-filters which allows broadband radiation to be focused (or imaged) without longitudinal or transverse chromatic aberrations. 7 refs., 4 figs.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5148584
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC-107319; CONF-911236-1; ON: DE91015186
• Resource Relation: Conference: Optical Society of America (OSA) conference on short wavelength coherent radiation, Monterey, CA (United States), Dec 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
LENSES
CHROMATIC ABERRATIONS
DIFFRACTION
FRESNEL LENS
OPTICS
X RADIATION
COHERENT SCATTERING
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
IONIZING RADIATIONS
RADIATIONS
SCATTERING
657000* - Theoretical & Mathematical Physics