Title :
Novel temporal zone plate design with improved energy efficiency and noise performance
Author :
Bo Li ; Shuqin Lou ; Azana, Jose
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a new kind of temporal zone plates, i.e., temporal amplitude zone plates, providing a 96% improvement in energy efficiency and significantly reducing noise background as compared with previous temporal intensity zone plates.
Keywords :
optical noise; zone plates; energy efficiency; noise background; noise performance; temporal amplitude zone plates; temporal zone plate design; Apertures; Distortion measurement; Energy efficiency; Lenses; Modulation; Noise; Optical pulse compression;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995400
