• Acta Optica Sinica
  • Vol. 40, Issue 17, 1722004 (2020)
Jia Si, Zexin Feng*, Dewen Cheng, and Yongtian Wang
Author Affiliations
  • Beijing Engineering Research Center of Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/AOS202040.1722004 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Jia Si, Zexin Feng, Dewen Cheng, Yongtian Wang. Freeform Surface Beam Splitter for Discrete Spot Array with Prescribed Energy Proportion[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2020, 40(17): 1722004 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Freeform lenses are used as freeform surface beam splitters to generate discrete spot arrays with arbitrary energy proportions. According to the law of conservation of energy, the incident beam is divided into a series of subregions corresponding to the spot array. For each subarea, variable separation is used to acquire the ray map between the input beam within the subarea and the corresponding spot. Further, a least squares method is used to construct the freeform surface following the ray map. Two design examples are provided to demonstrate the capabilities of freeform beam splitters: one could generate a Gaussian spot array with an equal energy proportion and the other could generate a square top-hat spot array with a predefined non-uniform energy proportion. Both freeform beam splitters exhibit light output ratios of over 89% considering Fresnel losses.
    Jia Si, Zexin Feng, Dewen Cheng, Yongtian Wang. Freeform Surface Beam Splitter for Discrete Spot Array with Prescribed Energy Proportion[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2020, 40(17): 1722004
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