Scaling of diffractive and refractive lenses for optical computing and interconnections
Date
1994-06-10Source Title
Applied Optics
Print ISSN
0003-6935
Publisher
Optical Society of America
Volume
33
Issue
17
Pages
3782 - 3789
Language
English
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Abstract
We discuss both numerically and analytically how the space-bandwidth product and the information density of lenses scale as functions of their diameter and f-number over many orders of magnitude. This information may be useful for the design of optical computing and interconnection systems. For diffractive lenses, cost is defined as the number of resolution elements the lithographic production system must have; the relationship of this quantity to the space-bandwidth product and information density is also given.
Keywords
Electromagnetic wave diffractionLenses
Lithography
Diffractive lenses
Optical computing
Refractive lenses
Optical data processing