Publications related to Ray transfer matrix analysis

Low-Loss Anisotropic Image Polaritons in van der Waals Crystal alpha-MoO3

Orthorhombic molybdenum trioxide (alpha-MoO3), a newly discovered polaritonic van der Waals crystal, is attracting significant attention due to its strongly anisotropic mid-infrared phonon-polaritons. At the same time, coupling of polariton with its mirror ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

ON WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS IN ASYMMETRIC AND MULTIPLE APERTURE OPTICAL SYSTEMS

Alessandro Grosso

The present work deals with monochromatic wavefront aberrations in optical systems without symmetries. The treatment begins with a class of systems characterized by misaligned spherical surfaces whose behavior is analyzed using the wavefront aberration exp ...

EPFL2021

Reciprocal Metasurfaces for On-axis Reflective Optical Computing

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Karim Achouri, Ali Momeni

Analog computing has emerged as a promising candidate for real-time and parallel continuous data processing. This paper presents a reciprocal way for realizing asymmetric optical transfer functions (OTFs) in the reflection side of the on-axis processing ch ...

2021

Lower Hybrid Current Drive in High Aspect Ratio Tokamaks

Hoang-Trang Lam, Joan Decker, Xiaoxia Bai

A multi-machine study has been carried out to investigate the impact of a strongly bounded wave propagation domain on the Lower Hybrid current drive, a condition which occurs principally in high aspect ratio tokamaks. In this regime, the condition of kinet ...

SPRINGER2020

Koehler integrator device and application thereof in a multi-focal confocal microscope

Suliana Manley, Kyle Michael Douglass, Dora Mahecic

A Koehler integrator device (10) comprises a collimating lens (11) being arranged for collimating a light field created by an incoherent or partially coherent light source, a pair of planar first and second micro-lens arrays (12, 13) being arranged for rel ...

2020

Optically Probed Time Dynamics of χ(2) Grating Inscription in SiN Waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Davide Grassani, Edgars Nitiss, Tianyi Liu

Silicon Nitride (S13N4) waveguide platforms have seen significant interest in the recent years, motivated by several advantageous properties such as compatibility with CMOS fabrication standards, low propagation loss, high refractive index and optical nonl ...

2019

Matrix Fourier optics enables a compact full-Stokes polarization camera

Gabriele D'Aversa

Recent developments have enabled the practical realization of optical elements in which the polarization of light may vary spatially. We present an extension of Fourier optics-matrix Fourier optics-for understanding these devices and apply it to the design ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2019

Sparse Lens Inversion Technique (SLIT): lens and source separability from linear inversion of the source reconstruction problem

Frédéric Courbin, Rémy Elie Joseph

Strong gravitational lensing offers a wealth of astrophysical information on the background source it affects, provided the lensed source can be reconstructed as if it was seen in the absence of lensing. In the present work, we illustrate how sparse optimi ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2019

Complex Refractive Indices of Cesium–Formamidinium-Based Mixed-Halide Perovskites with Optical Band Gaps from 1.5 to 1.8 eV

Christophe Ballif, Jérémie Werner, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Matthias Wolfgang Bräuninger, Gabriel Christmann, Florent Sahli, Arnaud Walter, Sylvain Nicolay, Björn Niesen, Gizem Nogay, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper, Chien-Jen Yang, Peter Joseph Fiala

Cesium-formamidinium-based mixed-halide perovskite materials with optical band gaps ranging from 1.5 to 1.8 eV are investigated by variable-angle spectroscopic ellipsometry. The determined complex refractive indices are shown to depend on the fabrication p ...

2018

Aberrations analysis of a Focused Plenoptic Camera

Toralf Scharf, Alessandro Grosso

A Focused Plenoptic Camera in Galilean configuration is studied and its aberrations behavior is interpreted with the Nodal Aberration Theory (NAT). Sequential ray tracing is applied to individual optical channels constituted by the camera objective and ind ...

2018

A compressed beamforming framework for ultrafast ultrasound imaging

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Yves Wiaux, Dimitris Perdios, Rafael Eduardo Carrillo Rangel, Marcel Arditi, Adrien Georges Jean Besson, Olivier Bernard

Classical beamforming methods, based on Delay- And-Sum (DAS) require an extensive number of samples and delay calculations to obtain high-quality images. Compressed Beamforming (CB) proposes an alternative to DAS, based on compressed sensing, which aims at ...

Ieee2016

MultiDarkLens Simulations: weak lensing light-cones and data base presentation

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Johan Comparat, Huanyuan Shan

In this paper we present a large data base of weak lensing light cones constructed using different snapshots from the Big MultiDark simulation (BigMDPL). The ray-tracing through different multiple plane has been performed with the GLAMER code accounting bo ...

Oxford Univ Press2016

Organic-inorganic-hybrid-polymer microlens arrays with tailored optical characteristics and multi-focal properties

Jürgen Brugger, Victor Javier Cadarso Busto, Loïc Jacot-Descombes

Plano-convex microlens arrays of organic-inorganic polymers with tailored optical properties are presented. The fine-tuning of each microlens within an array is achieved by confining inkjet printed drops of the polymeric ink onto pre-patterned substrates. ...

Optical Society of America2015

Ultrafast All-Polymer Electrically Tunable Silicone Lenses

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Luc Maffli, Michele Ghilardi

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA) are smart lightweight flexible materials integrating actuation, sensing, and structural functions. The field of DEAs has been progressing rapidly, with actuation strains of over 300% reported, and many application conce ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Portable advanced off-axis camera for quantitative phase microscopy

Christian Depeursinge

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a device in which common-path interferometry combined with off-axis holographic geometry is used to realize a digital holographic camera which can be attached to the camera port of a conventional transmission micro ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Development of Tunable Optical MEMS for Advanced Laser Beam Shaping, Homogenizing and Speckle Reduction

Jonathan Masson

In this thesis, the development, design, fabrication and characterization of three innovative laser beam shaping, homogenizing and speckle reduction devices are reported. Typical beam shaping devices are static and not easily adaptable to a large variety o ...

EPFL2012

Experimental demonstration of ray-optical refraction with confocal lenslet arrays

Toralf Scharf

We observe imaging through windows comprising pairs of confocal lenslet arrays that have different focal lengths but that are otherwise identical. Image space is stretched in the longitudinal direction only. Such windows are examples of METATOYs, optical c ...

Optical Society of America2010

Digital holographic reflectometry

Christian Depeursinge, Tristan Colomb, Jonas Kühn, Nicolas Pavillon, Ahmet Ata Akatay

Digital holographic microscopy (DHM) is an interferometric technique that allows real-time imaging of the entire complex optical wavefront (amplitude and phase) reflected by or transmitted through a sample. To our knowledge, only the quantitative phase is ...

2010

Amplitude point spread function measurement of high NA microscope objectives by digital holographic microscopy

Christian Depeursinge, Tristan Colomb, Pierre Marquet, Florian Charrière, Mihaela Marian

We present here a three-dimensional evaluation of the amplitude point-spread function (APSF) of a microscope objective (MO), based on a single holographic acquisition of its pupil wavefront. The aberration function is extracted from this pupil measurements ...

2007

Bi-directional transmission properties of Venetian blinds: experimental assessment compared to ray-tracing calculations

Marilyne Andersen, Jean-Louis Scartezzini

An accurate evaluation of daylight distribution through advanced fenestration systems (complex glazing, solar shading systems) requires the knowledge of their Bidirectional light Transmission (Reflection) Distribution Function BT(R)DF. An innovative equipm ...

2005