Optical design including characteristics of manufactured nanostructures

Christoph Wächter; Martin Müller; Erik Förster; Maria Oliva; Dirk Michaelis

doi:10.1117/12.2024055

27 September 2013 Optical design including characteristics of manufactured nanostructures

Christoph Wächter, Martin Müller, Erik Förster, Maria Oliva, Dirk Michaelis

Proceedings Volume 8840, Optical Modeling and Performance Predictions VI; 88400B (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024055
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Micro- and nanostructures enable specific optical functionalities, which rely on diffractive effects or effective medium features, depending on pattern dimension and wavelength. Performance predictions of optical systems which make use of nanostructured materials require having an accurate description of these materials ready to hand within the optical design. At the one hand, nanostructure characteristics which result from rigorous electromagnetic modeling can be used for the optical design. At the other hand, manufactured nanostructures may deviate from their idealized geometry, which will affect the performance of the optical system, wherein these artificial structures will be used. Thus, detailed optical characterization of the micro- or nanostructure functionality is prerequisite for accurate optical design and performance prediction. To this end, several characterization techniques can be applied depending on the scope of the optical design, finally. We report on a general route to include all accessible and required optical information about the nanostructured material within a corresponding model of the nanostructure as a specific optical component which can be used within a ray-trace engine, finally. This is illustrated by a meta-material with asymmetric transmission properties in some more detail.

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Christoph Wächter, Martin Müller, Erik Förster, Maria Oliva, and Dirk Michaelis "Optical design including characteristics of manufactured nanostructures", Proc. SPIE 8840, Optical Modeling and Performance Predictions VI, 88400B (27 September 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024055

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Nanostructures

Optical design

Metamaterials

Near field optics

Optics manufacturing

Transmittance

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