Solving tolerancing and 3D beam shaping problems by multifunctional wave optical design

摘要

A strategy for designing optical systems that are optimized for multiple optical functions on the basis of wave optics is presneted. Each optical function is composed of an input field, a set of fixed system parameters, and a merit funciton. A design algorithm is proposed which is applicable for optical systems consisting of an transmission operator followed by an arbitrary linear operator. The goal is to find the transmission operator which is optimal for all optical functions simultaneously. In later design steps, the found transmission operator can be transformed to real optical elements, for instance by using the thin element approximation. It is shown that the algorithm is effiicently applicable by investigating two sample applications for mltifunctional wave optical design: the design of tolerant systems and 3D beam shaping.