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Design of adjustable superresolving filters based on birefringent crystals
Huafeng Zhu1, Huijing Gan, Hongyi Gao
1Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 201800, China. huafengzhu@mail.siom.ac.cn
Abstract:
A two-mode adjustable superresolving filter based on a birefringent filter is proposed. This kind of filter has superresolution in two modes of adjustment. One is rotation of the binary pupil filter on the optical axis of the system and the other is the tilt of the filter away from the pupil plane on axis parallel or perpendicular to the optical axis of the crystal. The filters act as complex amplitude filters in the former mode, and as pure phase filters in the latter. By analyzing two superresolving parameters, we obtain the optimal design parameters that ensure a large field of view, a large superresolving range, and a high setting accuracy. This kind of filter can provide more flexibility in practical applications.
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