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Quasi-achromatic Fresnel zone lens with ring focus.

Anand Vijayakumar, +1 more
- 20 Mar 2014 - 
- Vol. 53, Iss: 9, pp 1970-1974
TLDR
Experimental results confirm the generation of a wavelength-independent ring pattern at the focus of the rf-FZL, which is found to be quasi-achromatic, in that the diameter is wavelength independent but its location is not.
Abstract
The phase of a standard Fresnel zone lens (FZL) is periodically modulated in the radial direction using the phase of a binary fraxicon. The resulting element (rf-FZL) focuses light into a ring. The ring is found to be quasi-achromatic, in that the diameter is wavelength independent but its location is not. The binary rf-FZL is fabricated using electron beam direct writing. Experimental results confirm the generation of a wavelength-independent ring pattern at the focus of the rf-FZL. An efficiency of 24% was obtained. The variation in radius of ring pattern was reduced from 61 μm to less than 10 nm for a corresponding wavelength variation from 532 to 633 nm.

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