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Villads Egede Johansen

Olivier Francois

Ulrich Quaade

Design techniques are described for diffractive optical elements that, at least in some instances, can permit the design of diffractive optical elements without high frequency features, or with a significantly reduced number of such features. Diffractive optical elements designed in accordance with the described techniques can, in some instances, be easier to manufacture and/or replicate.

Diffractive optical elements and methods for manufacturing diffractive optical elements

Techniques for designing diffractive optical elements (DOEs) such as diffusers and other optical beam shaping elements can include designing a DOE unit cell on a smaller area than the overall area of the DOE, and then distributing the unit cell across the entire surface for the DOE. Height translations are introduced for at least some of the unit cells distributed across the surface, where the height translations correspond to respective phase translations for the intended operational wavelength of the DOE. In some instances, phase wrapping is introduced to translate the height variations among the unit cells into unit cells having sub-unit structures whose heights fall within a range that corresponds to a specified phase range at the operational wavelength.

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