Title

Axial superresolution of focused radially polarized light using diffractive optical elements

Authors

Authors

Z. Y. Luo;S. M. Kuebler

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Commun.

Keywords

Superresolution; Diffractive optical element; Radial polarization; Pupil; filter; PARTICLE-SWARM OPTIMIZATION; CYLINDRICAL-VECTOR BEAMS; FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY; PUPIL FILTERS; PHASE; DESIGN; TRANSVERSE; RESOLUTION; Optics

Abstract

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) was used to design binary phase- and amplitude diffractive optical elements (DOEs) that axially superresolve a tightly focused radially polarized beam. The Pareto front was generated for a fitness-value space that describes the superresolution that can be achieved with the DOEs and radially polarized light versus an allowed upper bound in side lobe intensity. Fitness values for designs obtained via the PSO-, simplex-, and simulated-annealing methods are compared to show that PSO yields globally optimized solutions. Performance of binary phase/amplitude DOEs with different numbers of zones is compared. Binary amplitude DOEs give slightly better superresolution, whereas binary phase DOEs offer the advantage of higher power efficiency. The potential of using DOEs for 4Pi microscopy to further reduce the side lobes and achieve better superresolution is discussed. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Optics Communications

Volume

315

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

176

Last Page

182

WOS Identifier

WOS:000331596400031

ISSN

0030-4018

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