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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1990
William H Southwell, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Rockwell International Corporation, Seal Beach, CA (US);
Abstract
A binary optic lens is designed to achieve a predetermined effect on light propagating through the lens by specifying an initial lens design with a plurality of discontinuous subaperture regions, assigning each subaperture region a relative phase difference of 0 or .pi., and calculating the net intensity of light propagating through the lens by coherently summing the wave amplitudes for all of the subaperture regions at a given point in the image plane of the lens. The assigned phase difference for one of the subaperture regions is then changed and the intensity is recalculated by coherently summing the wave amplitudes for all of the subaperture regions at the given point. If the intensity increases over the previously calculated intensity, the changed phase difference is assigned to the selected subaperture region. The steps of changing, recalculating, and assigning are repeated for all of the subaperture regions to make one complete pass through the lens. The entire process is repeated until the calculated intensity no longer increases.