Monolithic bifocal zone-plate lenses for confocal collimation of laser diodes.

Autor: Jiang T, Chen QD, Zhang J, Tian ZN, Niu LG, Li QS, Wang HY, Qin L, Sun HB
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Optics letters [Opt Lett] 2013 Oct 01; Vol. 38 (19), pp. 3739-42.
DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.003739
Abstrakt: An elliptical monolithic bifocal zone plate as a collimating lens, whose two focal lengths in the orthogonal directions match the different beam waist positions of the fast and slow axes' light from edge-emitting laser diodes, is proposed and experimentally demonstrated by employing femtosecond laser direct writing technology. The high-quality eight-level zone plate exhibits a diffraction efficiency of 92.9%, which is much higher than those ever reported. Shaped by the elliptical lens, the laser diodes' divergence angles are simultaneously reduced from 65° (1134 mrad, fast axis) and 24° (418 mrad, slow axis) to 7.7 and 136.5 mrad, respectively.
Databáze: MEDLINE