Tunable sinusoidal Phase Gratings and sinusoidal Phase Zone Plates

Authors

  • Jorge Ojeda-Castaneda University of Guanajuato, Mexico
  • Cristina M. Gómez-Sarabia
  • Miguel Torres-Cisneros
  • Luis M. Ledesma-Carrillo
  • Rafael Guzmán-Cabrera
  • Cipriano Guzmán-Cano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/plp.v9i2.729

Abstract

We disclose the use of a suitable pair of phase-only masks for generating sinusoidal phase gratings, or sinusoidal phase zone plates, with tunable optical path delays. We show that these gratings can have either 1-D structure or a 2-D radial structure.

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Author Biography

Jorge Ojeda-Castaneda, University of Guanajuato, Mexico

Electronics Department, Professor

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2017-07-01

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J. Ojeda-Castaneda, C. M. Gómez-Sarabia, M. Torres-Cisneros, L. M. Ledesma-Carrillo, R. Guzmán-Cabrera, and C. Guzmán-Cano, “Tunable sinusoidal Phase Gratings and sinusoidal Phase Zone Plates”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 9, no. 2, pp. pp. 57–59, Jul. 2017.

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