{"title":"Current Issues in Free-Space Digital Optical Systems","authors":"H. S. Hinton","doi":"10.1364/odp.1993.md.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/odp.1993.md.3","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past 9 years there has been an increasing interest in digital optical systems, both computing and switching. It began in 1984 with a demonstration by USC of an optical master-slave flip-flop based on Hughes liquid crystal light valves as optical logic gates and holographic interconnects between the gates.[1]","PeriodicalId":296845,"journal":{"name":"Optical Design for Photonics","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115606960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Dixit, J. Lawson, K. Manes, H. Powell, K. Nugent
{"title":"Designing Continuous Contour Phase Plates for Beam Smoothing","authors":"S. Dixit, J. Lawson, K. Manes, H. Powell, K. Nugent","doi":"10.1364/odp.1993.tua.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/odp.1993.tua.16","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial and temporal beam smoothing has now become an integral part of laser driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF) worldwide.","PeriodicalId":296845,"journal":{"name":"Optical Design for Photonics","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128046001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photonic Subsystem Design Based on Hybrid Optoelectronic Integration on Silicon Substrates","authors":"C. Armiento","doi":"10.1364/odp.1993.wc.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/odp.1993.wc.2","url":null,"abstract":"Photonics is envisioned as a means for alleviating some of the performance bottlenecks in present-day electronic systems.","PeriodicalId":296845,"journal":{"name":"Optical Design for Photonics","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130267317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of multilayer cladding waveguides and their applications","authors":"Y. Kokubun","doi":"10.1364/odp.1993.mc.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/odp.1993.mc.3","url":null,"abstract":"Multilayer thin films can produce various states of complex reflection coefficient by regulating the thickness and refractive index of each layer and the angle of incidence.","PeriodicalId":296845,"journal":{"name":"Optical Design for Photonics","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128620488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back-of-the-envelope diffraction analysis for optimizing the depth of focus of scanning beams","authors":"G. W. Forbes","doi":"10.1364/odp.1993.mb.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/odp.1993.mb.2","url":null,"abstract":"Simple models are most effective for feasibility studies and in the preliminary stages of design. A particularly simple, but accurate, model is presented for analyzing certain diffraction problems and it is applied to the optimization of scanning beam.","PeriodicalId":296845,"journal":{"name":"Optical Design for Photonics","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122605717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and fabrication of astigmatic GRIN elements for laser diode collimation","authors":"K. Brenner, S. Sinzinger, T. Spick, M. Testorf","doi":"10.1364/odp.1993.wa.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/odp.1993.wa.3","url":null,"abstract":"Due to advances in semiconductor technology laser diodes found access to more and more applications in hi-tech as well as every day products.","PeriodicalId":296845,"journal":{"name":"Optical Design for Photonics","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122918452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiplexed Substrate-Mode Holographic Interconnects","authors":"Y. Amitai","doi":"10.1364/odp.1993.tua.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/odp.1993.tua.14","url":null,"abstract":"Recently there have been several proposals for fan-in or fan-out optical interconnect architectures with wavelength division multiplexing. One approach to transmit information from several sources onto a single target (or vise versa) relies on multiplexed holographic optical elements (HOEs), where each channel is associated with a separate HOE.","PeriodicalId":296845,"journal":{"name":"Optical Design for Photonics","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122947249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-Beam Grating Structures","authors":"A. Kathman, E. Johnson, M. Scott","doi":"10.1364/odp.1993.tua.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/odp.1993.tua.13","url":null,"abstract":"New systems are being developed around innovative diffractive optical components. Applications in optical interconnects, signal switching and interferometry have created a need for two-dimensional optical fanout gratings with unusual geometries. The increasingly complex gratings being designed for such optical fanout devices require specialized optimization algorithms to achieve desired performance. In this paper, we demonstrate optimization of a fanout grating in an n-dimensional solution space using a simulated annealing algorithm. The algorithm provides a successful first-order design which is further optimized using wave optics design software. A three beam grating is fabricated and tested; diffraction efficiencies will be reported. By means of the example below, we present a design algorithm for fanout grating of arbitrary geometry.","PeriodicalId":296845,"journal":{"name":"Optical Design for Photonics","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129354914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applications of Diffractive Optics with Only A Zero Order","authors":"R. Noll","doi":"10.1364/odp.1993.tua.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/odp.1993.tua.3","url":null,"abstract":"Gratings whose spacing is short compared to the wavelength of incident radiation have no diffracted orders as can be seen from the grating equation for normal incidence","PeriodicalId":296845,"journal":{"name":"Optical Design for Photonics","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114217128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and Fabrication of Efficient Fiber Microlenses","authors":"H. Presby","doi":"10.1364/odp.1993.md.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/odp.1993.md.1","url":null,"abstract":"Microlenses, fabricated directly on the ends of optical fiber, are used to improve the coupling of light from semiconductor lasers into the fiber. They achieve this by matching the very much smaller mode of the laser to that of the fiber.","PeriodicalId":296845,"journal":{"name":"Optical Design for Photonics","volume":"277 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121020217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}