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Diffraction grating

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Reconstruction of Angstrom resolution exit-waves by the application of drift-corrected phase-shifting off-axis electron holography

Thierry Meyer, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau

Phase-shifting electron holography is an excellent method to reveal electron wave phase information with very high phase sensitivity over a large range of spatial frequencies. It circumvents the limiting trade-off between fringe spacing and visibility of s ...

Elsevier2023

Volumetric additive manufacturing in a scattering resin

Jorge Andres Madrid Wolff

Volumetric 3D printing is a novel technique that offers promising new perspectives in tissue engineering. In volumetric 3D printing, photosensitive gels or liquids are solidified by projecting light patterns via reverse tomography. Recent results show that ...

EPFL2023

Spin wave dispersion of ultra-low damping hematite ( α−Fe2O3 ) at GHz frequencies

Dirk Grundler, Mohammad Hamdi, Ferdinand Rémy Hynek Posva

Low magnetic damping and high group velocity of spin waves (SWs) or magnons are two crucial parameters for functional magnonic devices. Magnonics research on signal processing and wave-based computation at GHz frequencies focused on the artificial ferrimag ...

2023

Multipolar Modeling of Spatially Dispersive Metasurfaces

Olivier Martin, Karim Achouri, Ville Tuovi Tiukuvaara

There is today a growing need to accurately model the angular scattering response of metasurfaces for optical analog processing applications. However, the current metasurface modeling techniques are not well suited for such a task since they are limited to ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Engineering Absorption for Foil Applications

Sebastian Mader

Light matter interactions such as extinction, reflection, and transmission can be described by classical optics. Dur-ing the past decades, research focused on a novel resonant extinction type called plasmonics that allows for en-hancement of both types of ...

EPFL2022

An elementary treatment on the diffraction of crystalline structures

Gervais Chapuis

Although W. L. Bragg's law can be easily derived for beginners in the field of crystallography, its interpretation however seems to cause some difficulties which lies essentially in the relation between the concept of lattice planes and the unit cell const ...

2022

Inverse design of diffractive optical elements using step-transition perturbation approach

Toralf Scharf, Dong Cheon Kim

Diffractive optical elements are ultra-thin optical components required for a variety of applications because of their high design flexibility. We introduce a gradient-based optimization method based on a step-transition perturbation approach which is an e ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2021

Volumetric Additive Manufactuing of Ceramics

Christophe Moser, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Paul Delrot, Jorge Andres Madrid Wolff, Georgia Konstantinou

Two-photon additive manufacturing of ceramic materials has demon-strated high-precision manufacturing of tools at the micrometer scale. Here, we propose single photon volumetric additive manufacturing toovercome limitations on print size and which avoid th ...

IEEE2021

Narrowband Optical Coupler Using Fano Interference in First Order Diffraction

Olivier Martin, Benjamin Gallinet, Giorgio Quaranta, Fabian Michael Lütolf

Light coupling in waveguides has been extensively investigated in a variety of contexts, from photonic integrated circuits to biosensing and near-eye displays for augmented reality. Here, narrowband diffraction is reported using a Fano interference effect ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

ON THE DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF WIDE ANGLE DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS

Dong Cheon Kim

Diffractive optical elements (DOEs) which consist of microstructure surface relief permit the generation of the spatial distribution of light beams by using a single element. Due to their compact size, design flexibility, and mass productivity, they are us ...

EPFL2021

Diamond diffractive optics-recent progress and perspectives

Niels Quack, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Gergely Huszka, Sichen Mi

Diamond is an exceptional material that has recently seen a remarkable increase in interest in academic research and engineering since high-quality substrates became commercially available and affordable. Exploiting the high refractive index, hardness, las ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2021

Remarkable Color Gamut Enhancement of Dye Lacquers Using Corrugated Surfaces

Olivier Martin, Sebastian Mader

The visual appearance of any colorized object is usually determined by the spectral absorption of either pigments or dyes. One can however also colorize objects with structural colors that typically have an iridescent appearance, as seen on many beetles. T ...

2021

Modeling specular transmission of complex fenestration systems with data-driven BSDFs

Jan Wienold

A Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function (BSDF) describes how light from each incident direction is scattered (reflected and transmitted) by a simple or composite surface, such as a window shade. Compact, tabular BSDFs may be derived via interpolat ...

2021

A phenomenological extended-reaction boundary model for time-domain wave-based acoustic simulations under sparse reflection conditions using a wave splitting method

Jan Sickmann Hesthaven

In environmental acoustics and in room acoustics, many surfaces exhibit extended-reaction (ER) behavior, i.e., their surface impedance varies with the angle of the incident sound wave. This paper presents a phenomenological method for modeling such angle d ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Polarization-sensitive optics diffraction tomography

Demetri Psaltis, Joowon Lim, Amirhossein Saba Shirvan

Polarization of light has been widely used as a contrast mechanism in two-dimensional (2D) microscopy and also in some three-dimensional (3D) imaging modalities. In this paper, we report the 3D tomographic reconstruction of the refractive index (RI) tensor ...

2021

Extension of Lorentz reciprocity and Poynting theorems for spatially dispersive media with quadrupolar responses

Olivier Martin, Karim Achouri

We provide a self-consistent extension of the Lorentz reciprocity theorem and the Poynting theorem for media possessing electric and magnetic dipolar and quadrupolar responses related to electric and magnetic fields and field gradients thus corresponding t ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Adjoint method and inverse design for diffractive beam splitters

Toralf Scharf, Dong Cheon Kim

Diffractive optical elements with a large diffraction angle require feature sizes down to sub-wavelength dimensions, which require a rigorous electromagnetic computational model for calculation. However, the computational optimization of these diffractive ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2020

Inverse design and demonstration of high-performance wide-angle diffractive optical elements

Toralf Scharf, Dong Cheon Kim

Diffractive optical elements are ultra-thin optical components required for constructing very compact optical 3D sensors. However, the required wide-angle diffractive 2D fan-out gratings have been elusive due to design challenges. Here, we introduce a new ...

2020

Light pattern generation with hybrid refractive microoptics under Gaussian beam illumination

Toralf Scharf, Maryam Yousefi

The generation of wide-angle diffraction patterns can be done in different ways using either thin diffractive optical elements with small features sizes or arrays of microoptics with large optical paths that are thick diffractive optical elements. Our aim ...

2020

Single crystal diamond gain mirrors for high performance vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers

Niels Quack, Alexandru Mereuta, Andrei Caliman, Pascal Gallo, Grigore Suruceanu, Gergely Huszka, Mehdi Naamoun

We report on the design, fabrication and optical performance of gain mirrors in single crystal diamond substrates for vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers (VECSELs). VECSELs have gained attention recently due to their potential for high emissio ...

2020