Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 8, Issue 3, 256(2010)

Focusing contribution of individual pinholes of a photon sieve: dependence on the order of local ring of underlying traditional Fresnel zone plate

Junyong Zhang1,2, Qing Cao2, Xingqiang Lu1, and Zunqi Lin1
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  • 1Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 2Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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    A photon sieve can be composed of a large number of circular pinholes. Each circular pinhole has a contribution to the focusing. For the case of point-to-point imaging, the focusing contribution of an individual circular pinhole can be analytically given. We investigate the dependence of the focusing contribution on the order m of local ring of underlying traditional Fresnel zone plate. In particular, we find that the focusing contribution is simply inversely proportional to the order m. We also present an intuitive explanation. These results are helpful for better understanding of the focusing property of photon sieves.

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    Junyong Zhang, Qing Cao, Xingqiang Lu, Zunqi Lin. Focusing contribution of individual pinholes of a photon sieve: dependence on the order of local ring of underlying traditional Fresnel zone plate[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(3): 256

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    Received: Jun. 5, 2009

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 11, 2010

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20100803.0256

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