{"title":"Resolution enhancement of low-NA objectives in confocal fluorescence microscopy by diffractive lens arrays","authors":"Zheng Li, M. Taphanel, T. Längle, J. Beyerer","doi":"10.1117/12.2603633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603633","url":null,"abstract":"In traditional confocal microscopes, high resolution and large fields of view are difficult to achieve simultaneously by microscope objectives, which limit the space-bandwidth products of the systems. With the proposed diffractive lens arrays, an objective with a low numerical aperture can have much higher resolution while maintaining its large field of view. Application of the diffractive lens arrays in fluorescence microscopy is presented in this work. The resolution enhancement is demonstrated by experiments with the fluorescent beads.","PeriodicalId":386109,"journal":{"name":"International Optical Design Conference","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116225015","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}
A. Phenis, A. Halterman, Andrew Nichols, Alicia Maccarrone, J. Mudge
{"title":"Design of an ultra-broadband, wide-field-of-view push-broom imaging radiometer","authors":"A. Phenis, A. Halterman, Andrew Nichols, Alicia Maccarrone, J. Mudge","doi":"10.1117/12.2603670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603670","url":null,"abstract":"The design of a push-broom radiometer operating from 0.2 μm to greater than 50 μm with a FOR > 120° is presented. The challenge is to design a WFOV radiometer with high accuracy and low uncertainty. This paper will present the results of an effort to design an ultra-broadband WFOV imaging radiometer, while balancing conditions that can impact the radiometric accuracy of the instrument. This system is further complicated by implementation of a single detector array that is sensitive to light over this very broad spectral range.","PeriodicalId":386109,"journal":{"name":"International Optical Design Conference","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125909943","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}
M. C. López-Bautista, M. Avendaño-Alejo, I. Velázquez-Gómez, L. Castañeda
{"title":"Designing afocal achromatic doublet lenses","authors":"M. C. López-Bautista, M. Avendaño-Alejo, I. Velázquez-Gómez, L. Castañeda","doi":"10.1117/12.2603651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603651","url":null,"abstract":"A method for designing afocal achromatic doublet is presented. We have implemented an exact ray trace through a separated doublet lens considering a plane wavefront propagating along the optical axis. The analytic equation of both the caustic surface and the back focal length for separated doublet lenses are provided. Demanding that the back focal length tends to infinity, we impose the conditions to design afocal optical systems, obtaining sixth and fourth degree polynomials as a function of the radii of curvature. In order to produce an afocal achromatic optical system, we solve numerically a set of two nonlinear equations assuming two spectral lines. Therefore, we have two unknowns which are the curvature radii for both the front surface and the rear surface. The contribution of this work is to provide simple formulas for designing optical beam expander or reducer devices based on separated doublets.","PeriodicalId":386109,"journal":{"name":"International Optical Design Conference","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125999180","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 multi-order diffractive lens telescope for broadband application","authors":"Zichan Wang, Youngsik Kim, T. Milster","doi":"10.1117/12.2603642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603642","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-order diffractive (MOD) lenses provide solutions for large transmissive telescope arrays. Methods to correct the classical and MOD-specific aberrations to achieve near diffraction limited performance over astronomical R-band are discussed.","PeriodicalId":386109,"journal":{"name":"International Optical Design Conference","volume":"357 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134027540","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}
Alexandre Cléroux Cuillerier, J. Borne, X. Dallaire, S. Thibault
{"title":"Toward hybrid refractive and metalens design","authors":"Alexandre Cléroux Cuillerier, J. Borne, X. Dallaire, S. Thibault","doi":"10.1117/12.2603686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603686","url":null,"abstract":"A method to integrate metasurfaces in lens design is proposed. Thanks to a model based on effective medium theory used in conjunction with lens design software, the optical properties of custom metasurfaces within a complex system can be calculated. Compared to simple phase surfaces embedded in common lens design software, the phase shift profile given by our model is dependent on the wavelength and field of view. We thus demonstrate that those phase surfaces cannot accurately reproduce the behaviour of metasurfaces in every system. As a proof- of-concept, a hybrid refractive and metalens design was also made. The metasurface located within two refractive lenses corrects mainly the spherical aberration and allows the system to be almost diffraction-limited for the whole field of view.","PeriodicalId":386109,"journal":{"name":"International Optical Design Conference","volume":" 33","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113950374","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}
R. Mohedano, P. Benítez, D. Grabovičkić, P. Zamora, M. Nikolić, M. Buljan, J. Miñano, E. Sánchez, J. Chaves, J. López, E. Pérez, J. Vilaplana, Joseph E. Gonzalez
{"title":"Exploring the limits of CLOVER: a multichannel optics for VR and MR","authors":"R. Mohedano, P. Benítez, D. Grabovičkić, P. Zamora, M. Nikolić, M. Buljan, J. Miñano, E. Sánchez, J. Chaves, J. López, E. Pérez, J. Vilaplana, Joseph E. Gonzalez","doi":"10.1117/12.2603610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603610","url":null,"abstract":"Most virtual reality (VR) headsets nowadays use conventional, rotationally symmetric optics to create a wide field of view (FOV > 90°) virtual scene enabling the required “immersion” or “presence” feeling. These optics require a long total track length (TTL, distance between the actual panel displaying the contents and user’s pupil) to work well, and headsets become very bulky. The so-called CLOVER is an optic, compatible with VR and video-see-through mixed reality (MR) able to work around the TTL problem by using a freeform multi-channel, light folding approach. In its simplest version, it can reduce the TTL down to a half, compared to conventional solutions, for the same FOV and angular resolution. Along with a review of the original 4-channel CLOVER, this work shows recent results of upscale versions of the optic that utilize myopia and color correction, pupil tracking and staggered surfaces to, respectively, avoid the need of prescription lenses, improve the image quality for all colors, rise the resolution (by a 20%) and reduce the size (20% TTL reduction) of the precursor.","PeriodicalId":386109,"journal":{"name":"International Optical Design Conference","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126795743","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":"Experimental investigation of third-order binodal astigmatism in Nodal Aberration Theory (NAT) with a Cassegrain system","authors":"Ö. Karci, Eray Arpa, M. Ekinci, J. Rolland","doi":"10.1117/12.2603676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603676","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we present a simulation and experimental investigation of binodal astigmatism in NAT with a Cassegrain telescope. The high-precision telescope system utilizes a piezo-actuated flexural mechanism to introduce secondary mirror misalignments and generate aberrations intentionally. The induced aberrations are measured interferometrically and quantified for a grid of field points on the image plane of the telescope. For this purpose, a coma-free pivot point of the secondary mirror was simulated for isolating the binodal astigmatism field response. A simulation of binodal astigmatism was generated using a real ray trace model of the Cassegrain system and analyzed to compare to the experimental results. The experimental results were consistent with the simulations, hence experimentally validating NAT for binodal astigmatism for the first time.","PeriodicalId":386109,"journal":{"name":"International Optical Design Conference","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133344509","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 a freeform refractive surface with reflection loss for illumination","authors":"Weitao Song, Chen Xu, Yue Liu, Yongtian Wang","doi":"10.1117/12.2603680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603680","url":null,"abstract":"We have proposed a design method of a freeform refractive surface for illumination using multiple faceted refractors. The reflection loss on the refractive surface also has been considered during the design process. As an example, a smooth freeform lens with uniform illumination distribution is designed. Compared with the direct method without consideration of the loss of energy, the method achieved a great improvement in the uniformity of illumination distribution with no loss of output efficiency.","PeriodicalId":386109,"journal":{"name":"International Optical Design Conference","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132953766","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":"Optical considerations for design of surface disinfection devices based on UV-C LEDs","authors":"P. Fredes, U. Raff, E. Gramsch","doi":"10.1117/12.2603623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603623","url":null,"abstract":"Due to a serious pandemic scenario, the surface disinfection process using monochromatic light sources based on UV-C LEDs is becoming more and more required. A brief review of the optoelectronics parameters of the devices based on UV-C LEDs light sources and the UV-C dose required to achieve a 99,9% of inactivation on surfaces (3 log reduction) of human Coronavirus (HCov-OC43 used as SARS-CoV-2 surrogate) has been prepared. A new parameter labeled as “homogeneity factor” has been defined to be applied on a bounded area where the homogeneity of the distribution requires a reliable average dose.","PeriodicalId":386109,"journal":{"name":"International Optical Design Conference","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122276740","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":"Tunable LED-based illuminator using freeform arrays","authors":"Shohreh Shadalou, W. Cassarly, T. Suleski","doi":"10.1117/12.2603627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2603627","url":null,"abstract":"We present a tunable LED-based illuminator using custom arrays of Alvarez lenses with commercially available secondary optics. Design methods and characterization of the system performance are discussed.","PeriodicalId":386109,"journal":{"name":"International Optical Design Conference","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114634947","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}