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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 56, Issue 4, Pages 806-815Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.56.000806
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- National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) [DE-NA0001944]
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The optimization of components that rely on spatially dithered distributions of transparent or opaque pixels and an imaging system with far-field filtering for transmission control is demonstrated. The binary-pixel distribution can be iteratively optimized to lower an error function that takes into account the design transmission and the characteristics of the required far-field filter. Simulations using a design transmission chosen in the context of high-energy lasers show that the beam-fluence modulation at an image plane can be reduced by a factor of 2, leading to performance similar to using a non-optimized spatial-dithering algorithm with pixels of size reduced by a factor of 2 without the additional fabrication complexity or cost. The optimization process preserves the pixel distribution statistical properties. Analysis shows that the optimized pixel distribution starting from a high-noise distribution defined by a random-draw algorithm should be more resilient to fabrication errors than the optimized pixel distributions starting from a low-noise, error-diffusion algorithm, while leading to similar beamshaping performance. This is confirmed by experimental results obtained with various pixel distributions and induced fabrication errors. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America
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