New paper in Optical Engineering with a virtual propagation experimental system
We have published a new paper in Optical Engineering entitled «Experimental implementation of a virtual optical beam propagator system based on a Fresnel diffraction algorithm«.
Here we present an optical system for a virtual beam propagator evaluation without any moving element. It is based on the encoding of the Fresnel diffraction through a fast transform algorithm, and the use of a spatial light modulator to display the porpagated pattern. The paper discusses the limits imposed by the pixelated structure of the SLM.
This work a been done in collaboration with our friends Jeffrey Davis, Don Cottrell and the students at SDSU.
The paper can be downloaded at: link