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Cantor Dust Zone Plates
2013
In this paper we use the Cantor Dust to design zone plates based on a two-dimensional fractal for the first time. The pupil function that defines the coined Cantor Dust Zone Plates (CDZPs) can be written as a combination of rectangle functions. Thus CDZPs can be considered as photon sieves with rectangular holes. The axial irradiances produced by CDZPs of different fractal orders are obtained analitically and experimentally, analyzing the influence of the fractality. The transverse irradiance patterns generated by this kind of zone plates has been also investigated.
Bi-color spatial solitons in linearly uncoupled planar waveguides
2004
We report on the observation of spatial optical simultons in a novel geometry consisting of two partially overlapped, linearly uncoupled planar waveguides in lithium niobate obtained by reverse proton exchange. Two orthogonally polarized modes are coupled through an off-diagonal tensor element of the quadratic nonlinearity, giving rise to second harmonic generation and mutual trapping via cascading. This phenomenon demonstrates a balance between diffraction and self-focusing for two orthogonal modes of different waveguides, and occurs at room temperature in longitudinally uniform waveguides.
Far-field light imaging in the presence of atmospheric turbulence with rotating anti-phase apertures: Theoretical investigation
2017
We investigated the diffraction of far-field light objects in the presence of turbulence formed by an optical system with a rotating anti-phase mask. This mask facilitates to detect the position of faint companion in every direction around the bright companion. In the presence of atmospheric turbulence, diffraction images of distant objects are beyond the diffraction limits, the proposed phase shift mask has a merit to compensate the turbulence results high contrast astronomical imaging under partially coherent light illumination and it is proficient to increase the resolution limits in a Sparrow criterion sense. In this approach, we demonstrated the mask fabrication in laboratory condition…
Asymmetric apodization in confocal scanning systems.
2008
A new class of superresolution pairs of pupil filters for three-dimensional, two-pupil confocal imaging is proposed. A distinctive feature of these filters is the asymmetry of their impulse response. For synthesizing the amplitude transmittance of such filters the Fourier transform properties of Hermitian functions are employed. It is shown that, with simple phase-only filters that belong to the class in question, either axial or unidirectional lateral superresolution is achieved.
A Kapitza-Dirac-Talbot-Lau interferometer for highly polarizable molecules
2007
Research on matter waves is a thriving field of quantum physics and has recently stimulated many investigations with electrons, neutrons, atoms, Bose-condensed ensembles, cold clusters and hot molecules. Coherence experiments with complex objects are of interest for exploring the transition to classical physics, for measuring molecular properties and they have even been proposed for testing new models of space-time. For matter-wave experiments with complex molecules, the strongly dispersive effect of the interaction between the diffracted molecule and the grating wall is a major challenge because it imposes enormous constraints on the velocity selection of the molecular beam. We here descri…
Role of pump diffraction on the stability of localized structures in degenerate optical parametric oscillators.
2000
We show that the stability range of localized structures (LS's) in the form of minimum size phase domains in degenerate optical parametric oscillators is enhanced by increasing the diffraction of the pump wave. Pump diffraction enhances spatial oscillations of decaying tails of domain boundaries, whereas spatially oscillating (weakly decaying) tails prevent the collapse of LS's, enhance their stability range, and allow the existence of more complex LS's in the form of molecules.
Study and implementation of a soft X-ray 100 eV -20 keV fixed exit monochromator system
2006
We describe a “built in house” X-ray monochromator which produces a fixed exit X-ray beam tunable in the full energy range 0.1 - 20 keV. The system is based on a double diffraction on two large size parallel crystals positioned using a remotely controlled micropositioning system in order to keep the position of the monochromatic beam for any chosen energy. Up to six different diffracting elements can be selected without breaking the vacuum. This allows to cover the full energy range of interest. The system is part of an upgrading project of the XACT facility at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo G.S. Vaiana, and will be employed for the testing and c…
Scale-tunable optical correlation with natural light
2008
We describe two different scale-tunable optical correlators working under totally incoherent light. They behave as spatially incoherent wavelength-independent imaging systems with an achromatic point-spread function (PSF). In both cases it is possible to adapt the scale of the achromatic PSF, i.e., to modify the scaling factor of the PSF and preserve the chromatic compensation, by one's shifting the input along the optical axis. The remarkable properties of these systems allow us to carry out a scale-tunable color pattern-recognition experiment with natural light.
Electromagnetic scattering by a strip grating with nonplanar illumination
1993
An angular-spectrum method combined with the Galerkin procedure has been used to evaluate the electromagnetic scattering of a beam radiated by an aperture antenna after being incident obliquely upon a strip grating. Integral expressions for the transmitted and reflected fields are obtained. The incident beam radiated by the antenna is diffracted in several beams corresponding to the propagative Floquet harmonics. An angular shift of the transmitted and reflected fundamental harmonic beams has been shown. Comparison between numerical and experimental results validates this method. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Emitter-site specificity of hard x-ray photoelectron Kikuchi-diffraction
2020
New journal of physics 22(10), 103002 (1-13) (2020). doi:10.1088/1367-2630/abb68b