Generalized propagation of light through optical systems. II. Numerical implications

Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, Image Science, and Vision
Manuel Tessmer, Herbert Gross

Abstract

We present an algorithm implemented in a MATLAB toolbox that is able to compute the wave propagation of coherent visible light through macroscopic lenses. The mathematical operations that complete the status at the end of the first paper of this sequence, where only limited configurations of the propagation direction were allowed toward arbitrarily directed input beam computations, are provided. With their help, high numerical aperture (NA) field tracing is made possible that is based on fast Fourier routines and is Maxwell exact in the limit of macroscopic structures and large curvature radii, including reflection and transmission. Whereas the curvature-dependent terms in the Helmholtz equation are under analytical control through the first perturbation order in the curvature, they are only included in the propagation distance in the current investigation for the sake of reasonable time consumption. We give a number of examples that demonstrate the strengths of our approach, describe essential differences from other approaches that were not obvious when Paper 1 was written, and list a number of drawbacks and possible simplifications to overcome them.

References

Mar 21, 2008·Applied Optics·L Onural
Sep 15, 2015·Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, Image Science, and Vision·Manuel Tessmer, Herbert Gross
Sep 15, 2015·Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, Image Science, and Vision·Birk AndreasCarlo Palmisano

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