Uniformity of reshaped beam by diffractive optical elements with light-emitted diode illumination

Mengzhu Chen; Huarong Gu; Qixia Wang; Qiaofeng Tan

doi:10.1117/12.2196648

15 October 2015 Uniformity of reshaped beam by diffractive optical elements with light-emitted diode illumination

Mengzhu Chen, Huarong Gu, Qixia Wang, Qiaofeng Tan

Proceedings Volume 9673, AOPC 2015: Micro/Nano Optical Manufacturing Technologies; and Laser Processing and Rapid Prototyping Techniques; 96730C (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2196648
Event: Applied Optics and Photonics China (AOPC2015), 2015, Beijing, China

Abstract

Due to its low energy consumption, high efficiency and fast switching speed, light-emitted diode (LED) has been used as a new light source in optical wireless communication. To ensure uniform lighting and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) during the data transmission, diffractive optical elements (DOEs) can be employed as optical antennas. Different from laser, LED has a low temporal and spatial coherence. And its impacts upon the far-field diffraction patterns of DOEs remain unclear. Thus the mathematical models of far-field diffraction intensity for LED with a spectral bandwidth and source size are first derived in this paper. Then the relation between source size and uniformity of top-hat beam profile for LEDs either considering the spectral bandwidth or not are simulated. The results indicate that when the size of LED is much smaller than that of reshaped beam, the uniformity of reshaped beam obtained by light source with a spectral bandwidth is significantly better than that by a monochromatic light. However, once the size is larger than a certain threshold value, the uniformity of reshaped beam of two LED models are almost the same, and the influence introduced by spectral bandwidth can be ignored. Finally the reshaped beam profiles are measured by CCD camera when the areas of LED are 0.5×0.5mm2 and 1×1mm2. And the experimental results agree with the simulations.

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Mengzhu Chen, Huarong Gu, Qixia Wang, and Qiaofeng Tan "Uniformity of reshaped beam by diffractive optical elements with light-emitted diode illumination", Proc. SPIE 9673, AOPC 2015: Micro/Nano Optical Manufacturing Technologies; and Laser Processing and Rapid Prototyping Techniques, 96730C (15 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2196648

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Light emitting diodes

Diffraction

Diffractive optical elements

Far-field diffraction

Light sources

Diodes

Mathematical modeling

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