Direct comparison of anti-diffracting optical pin beams and abruptly autofocusing beams

Author(s):

Denghui Li, Domenico Bongiovanni, Michael Goutsoulas, Shiqi Xia, Ze Zhang, Yi Hu, Daohong Song, Roberto Morandotti, Nikolaos K. Efremidis, and Zhigang Chen

Abstract:

“We propose and demonstrate a generalized class of anti-diffracting optical pin-like beams (OPBs). Such beams exhibit autofocusing dynamics while morphing into a Bessel-like shape during long-distance propagation, where the size of their main lobe can be tuned by an exponent’s parameter. In particular, their amplitude envelope can be engineered to preserve the pin-like peak intensity pattern. In both theory and experiment, the OPBs are directly compared with radially symmetric abruptly autofocusing beams (AABs) under the same conditions. Furthermore, enhanced transmission and robustness of the OPBs are observed while traversing a scattering colloidal suspension, as compared to both AABs and conventional Bessel beams.”

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Publication: OSA Continuum
Issue/Year: Vol. 3, Issue 6, pp. 1525-1535 (2020)
DOI: 10.1364/OSAC.391878

Hologram generation via Hilbert transform

Author(s):

Tomoyoshi Shimobaba, Takashi Kakue, Yota Yamamoto, Ikuo Hoshi, Harutaka Shiomi, Takashi Nishitsuji, Naoki Takada, and Tomoyoshi Ito

Abstract:

“We propose an indirect method for generating a complex hologram and phase-only hologram from an amplitude hologram using the Hilbert transform. The Hilbert transform generates an imaginary part of complex amplitude from only an amplitude hologram, resulting in the reduction of the total computational complexity of complex and phase-only holograms. More importantly, the proposed method can reduce the hardware resources of dedicated hologram processors.”

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Publication: OSA Continuum
Issue/Year: Vol. 3, Issue 6, pp. 1498-1503 (2020)
DOI: 10.1364/OSAC.395003