Efficiency limit of spatially quantized Fourier array illuminators
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Optics Letters
|February 15, 1997
Abstract:
We derive an upper limit for the efficiency of spatially quantized Fourier array illuminators. This complements a previously reported formula for the efficiency limit of diffractive elements constrained only in phase.

