Focal-depth expanding method and device based on phase and polarization

An expansion method and polarized light technology, which is applied in the field of focusing methods and devices for expanding the depth of focus, can solve the problems of increasing system cost and poor effect, and achieve the effect of improving beam quality, uniform intensity, and saving system cost

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-02-16
ZHEJIANG UNIV
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This kind of superposition is just a simple addition of light intensity, the effect is very poor, and it is greatly limited in practical applications, which increases the cost of the system

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[0047] The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings and embodiments, but the present invention is not limited to this.

[0048] Such as figure 1 The device shown for achieving focal depth expansion includes: a light source 1, a polarization converter 2, a first beam splitter 3, a 0 / π circular phase plate 4, a second beam splitter 5, and a first mirror 6. The second reflecting mirror 7 and the apochromatic focusing lens 8, the expanded focal depth spot obtained after focusing appears near the working plane 9 of the apochromatic focusing lens 8.

[0049] Among them, the polarization converter 2 is a Radial-Azimuthal Polarization Converter from ARCoptix, Sweden, and the first mirror 6 and the second mirror 7 are metal film mirrors that can maintain the same polarization characteristics of the incident light and the reflected light.

[0050] The light source 1 emits a collimated and parallel working beam, which is converted into cylindrical polar...

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The patent refers to the field of 'optical elements, systems, or apparatus'. The invention discloses a focal-depth expanding method comprising the following steps of: converting work beam polarization into cylindrical polarized light and splitting the cylindrical polarized light into two beams, wherein after being coded by 0-Pi phases, one beam and the other beam which is optically replicated irradiate the same optical beam combiner inwards to form a combined coaxial beam, and after the combined coaxial beam is focused by a lens, an expanded focal-depth spot is obtained. The invention also discloses a focal-depth expanding device comprising a light source, a polarized light converter, an optical splitter, a 0 / Pi phase plate, an optical replicating device, an optical beam combiner and an apochromat focusing lens. For the focal depths of specific types of focusing spots, the method and the device use coherent light as work beams, save system cost and increase practicability, meanwhile, the focal depths of the expanded focusing spots are increased by above two times, the beam quality is increased, the focusing spots can reach below the self diffraction limitation of a system, and the expanded light intensity has more even distribution and is more beneficial for practical application.

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Technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of lithography and super-resolution imaging, in particular to a focusing method and device for expanding the focal depth. Background technique [0002] Research on extended focal depth in optical disk storage, microscopy imaging, optical calibration and tomography and other application fields have been successively carried out. Among them, wavefront coding technology (Wavefront Coding, WFC) is a new extension of focal depth of optical system developed in the 1990s. The technology was proposed by Dowski and Cathey in 1995. In recent years, the study of obtaining extended focal depth through polarization effects has also attracted attention. Recently, there have been reports on the use of radial and tangential vector beams, quasi-bifocal birefringent lenses and cemented double lenses to achieve extended focal depth. These methods have carried out extensive and in-depth research on the aspect of optical axial extension of fo...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G02B27/00G02B27/28G02B5/30
Inventor 匡翠方郝翔库玉龙刘旭王婷婷李旸晖
Owner ZHEJIANG UNIV
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