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Experimental and theoretical investigation on the misalignment tolerance of a micron-sized solid immersion lens tolerance of a micron-sized solid immersion lens

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim

We report an experimental and theoretical study on the alignment error tolerance of a 2 µm-size solid immersion lens (SIL) illuminated by different types of focused spots. Tightly confined focal spots are of great interest for improving the performance of ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Experimental and theoretical study of the Gouy phase anomaly of light in the focus of microlenses

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim, Ali Naqavi

We report on the Gouy phase anomaly of light in the focus of cylindrical and spherical microlenses. The prime subject of our study concerns a discussion of how the very small size of microlenses affects the phase properties of light in their foci. We put e ...

Institute of Physics (IoP) and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft2013

Multiple Phase Anomalies in Bessel Beam

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim

The non-diverging feature of the Bessel-kind beam leads to multiple phase anomalies along the optical axis in contrary to the focused Gaussian beam. Here, we analyze the phase distributions using in a longitudinal-differential phase mode of a high-resoluti ...

2013

Phase anomalies in Talbot light carpets of selfimages

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim

An interesting feature of light fields is a phase anomaly, which occurs on the optical axis when light is converging as in a focal spot. Since in Talbot images the light is periodically confined in both transverse and axial directions, it remains an open q ...

Optical Society of America2013

Physics of Polariton Condensates in GaN-based Planar Microcavities

Jacques Levrat

Since its prediction in 1996 by Imamoğlu and coworkers, the use of a non-equilibrium polariton condensate to produce an intense coherent light source referred to as a polariton laser has attracted a lot of interest in the whole physics community as it ...

EPFL2012

On the Characteristics of Highly Confined Light Fields

Myun Sik Kim

The Investigation of highly confined light fields created by different mechanisms, such as refraction, diffraction, and scattering, are the main subject of this thesis. We distinguish a specific scattering phenomenon of dielectric microspheres from general ...

EPFL2011

Mechanically tuneable microoptical structure based on PDMS

Jürgen Brugger, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Victor Javier Cadarso Busto

A system of two solid microlenses with uncoupled optical properties is presented. This structure has been designed in order to have one lens as a reference, while the other one can be mechanically tuneable. The reference lens presents a diameter of 2 mu m ...

Elsevier2010

Extended Focus Optical Coherence Microscopy

Martin Villiger

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an interferometric imaging technique that can provide depth resolved cross-sectional views of biological tissue. OCT employs light with low temporal and yet high spatial coherence. The sample is illuminated point by po ...

EPFL2010

Advanced passive micro-optical elements

Micro-optical elements are optical elements having size or details in the range of the micrometer scale. The emergency of such elements is strongly linked to the development made in the fabrication techniques during the nineties to follow the still actual ...

Institut de Microtechnique, Université de Neuchâtel2008

Enhancement of extended depth of field by digital focusing

Theo Lasser, Rainer Leitgeb, Martin Villiger, Cédric Blatter

With the use of a Bessel-like illumination beam produced by an axicon lens an extended depth of field can be achieved. The resulting illumination pattern exhibits a strong central lobe extending over 300um along the optical axis without diffraction. Here w ...

2008

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