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A Multimodal Wide-Field Fourier-Transform Raman Microscope
Published on: December 30, 2025
Optical effect of diffractive multifocal focusing of radiation on a bicomponent diffraction system
1Theoretical Department, Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Samara Branch, Novo-Sadovaya str 221, 443011 Samara, Russia.
Abstract:
It is shown for the first time, to our knowledge, that when a plane wave illuminates a certain type of bicomponent optical system, consisting of two plane screens with circular apertures on a given optical axis, a multifocal diffractive focusing effect can appear. Here the diffraction picture in the focal planes represents the circular nonlocal bands of the Fresnel zones with a bright narrow peak at the center, whose intensity can exceed by 6-10 times the value of the incident-wave intensity. The detected optical effect is observed across a wide range of wavelengths, lambda = 0.4-10(3) microm, and ratios of the aperture diameters d(1) >or= 2d(2) = 25-1000 lambda, and it is also insensitive to changes in the medium of the wave propagation. For the large diameters of input holes, d(1) = 2d(2) > 100 lambda, or for wavelengths in the radio-frequency region of the spectrum, the bicomponent diffraction system acts as a long-focus lens with a high-intensity Gaussian distribution of radiation, at times exceeding the initial intensity, persisting at large distances (z = 1-100 cm) from the diffraction system.
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