Optical beam shaping and diffraction free waves: A variational approach

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2014.06.003MaRDI QIDQ2832925zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John A. Gemmer, Shankar C. Venkataramani, Charles G. Durfee, J. V. Moloney

Publication date 15 November 2016

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6289

zbMATH Keywords

beam shapingFresnel approximationlocalized wavesparaxial wave equationphase retrieval

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Variational methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M30)

Abstract: We investigate the problem of shaping radially symmetric annular beams into desired intensity patterns along the optical axis. Within the Fresnel approximation, we show that this problem can be expressed in a variational form equivalent to the one arising in phase retrieval. Using the uncertainty principle we prove rigorous lower bounds on the functional that capture how the various physical parameters in the problem determine the accuracy of the beam shaping. We also use the method of stationary phase to construct a natural ansatz for a minimizer in the short wavelength limit. We illustrate the implications of our results by applying the method of stationary phase coupled with the Gerchberg-Saxton algorithm to beam shaping problems arising in remote delivery of beams and pulses.

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