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Geodesic Lenses for Guided Optical Waves

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Abstract

Two-dimensional lenses are essential elements in integrated optics. As an alternative to the techniques already suggested and tested to obtain such optical systems, a different method is reported that consists of extending to thin film optics the principle of configuration lenses already studied for application to microwave antennas. The working principle of such lenses is that the propagation occurs along a curved surface in a two-dimensional Riemann space. The rays are the geodesics of the surface. Two optical geodesic lenses having planar input and output have been constructed and tested. They can be easily inserted in planar film circuits. The advantage of these optical systems is that the substrate can be prepared in advance with the accuracy of glass optics. Then the dielectric film can be deposited with the same method used for planar components.

© 1973 Optical Society of America

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