How the design concepts of high-NA beam splitters and diffusers, as well as of beam shapers by freeform surfaces are related (Conference Presentation)

Roberto Knoth; Christian Hellmann; Frank Wyrowski

doi:10.1117/12.2509580

4 March 2019 How the design concepts of high-NA beam splitters and diffusers, as well as of beam shapers by freeform surfaces are related (Conference Presentation)

Roberto Knoth, Christian Hellmann, Frank Wyrowski

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Proceedings Volume 10899, Components and Packaging for Laser Systems V; 1089914 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2509580
Event: SPIE LASE, 2019, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Tailored laser illumination systems play a major role in various industrial applications, ranging from laser-beam splitting and diffusing to generate signal patterns with large fields of view for face and movement recognition, to shaping the wavefront of a laser beam using freeform surfaces. Several design concepts are based on topology control of the shaping element to avoid strong phase jumps or to minimize phase vortices and control the speckles of the illumination pattern at the signal plane. Other techniques follow a local shaping approach of the phase to control the wavefront, either over the whole element or in specific regions, with said regions arranged periodically to generate e.g. micro-lens arrays or randomly to generate diffusers of continuous surface topology. In particular, we show how these techniques are related to each other and how they can be used to improve maximum efficiency, uniformity of the intensity distribution and to minimize the zeroth order for non-paraxial illumination by laser beams.

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Roberto Knoth, Christian Hellmann, and Frank Wyrowski "How the design concepts of high-NA beam splitters and diffusers, as well as of beam shapers by freeform surfaces are related (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10899, Components and Packaging for Laser Systems V, 1089914 (4 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2509580

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