Coma aberration in diffraction from a narrow slit

Yaakov M. Engelberg; Shlomo Ruschin

doi:10.1117/12.506138

Coma aberration in diffraction from a narrow slit

Yaakov M. Engelberg^*, Shlomo Ruschin

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School of Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

It is shown that a light beam diffracting from a narrow slit (width on the order of magnitude of the wavelength of the incident light) at oblique incidence exhibits coma aberration. The motivation for this study was simulation of an optical system in which light is emitted from a waveguide array at an oblique angle. It was found that the coma aberration of the slit or waveguide array is canceled out exactly by the coma aberration of a collimating plano-convex cylindrical lens. Analytical expressions, numerical simulation results and laboratory results are presented.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	112-123
Number of pages	12
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	5178
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.506138
State	Published - 2004
Event	Optical Modeling and Performance Predictions - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: 6 Aug 2003 → 7 Aug 2003

Keywords

Coma
Cylindrical lens
Physical optics propagation
Slit diffraction
Waveguide array

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