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    • Optics and Photonics
    • Computational Electromagnetics
    • Infrared and Microwave Engineering

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    • Micro-mirror array beam combiners are crucial for infrared/microwave (IR/MW) applications.
    • Accurate computation of electromagnetic field distributions is essential for designing and optimizing these devices.
    • Existing methods like the multilevel fast multipole method (MLFMM) are computationally intensive.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose and validate the aperture field integration method (AFIM) for efficient computation of IR/MW micro-mirror array beam combiners.
    • To analyze the performance and accuracy of AFIM in calculating MW near-field and IR far-field distributions.
    • To evaluate the impact of micro-mirror array design parameters on field uniformity and imaging quality.

    Main Methods:

    • The aperture field integration method (AFIM) was developed and applied to compute MW near-field and IR far-field distributions.
    • AFIM's computational efficiency (memory and CPU time) was compared against MLFMM.
    • The accuracy of AFIM for IR far-field computation was validated through experimental comparison.
    • Novel indicators (E_pv, E_rms, φ_pv, φ_rms) were introduced to quantify MW near-field uniformity.

    Main Results:

    • AFIM significantly reduced memory requirements (from 16.92 GB to 0.66 MB) and CPU time (from 3.26 h to 0.55 s) for MW near-field calculations, with >96% accuracy.
    • Increased beam combiner size improved MW near-field uniformity; square shapes showed less impact than circular ones.
    • The analysis confirmed that AFIM can achieve high-quality IR imaging by ensuring the secondary maximum of diffraction falls outside the focal plane array and the primary maximum's half-width is within a single pixel.

    Conclusions:

    • AFIM is a highly efficient and accurate unified method for analyzing IR/MW micro-mirror array beam combiners.
    • The method facilitates the design, analysis, evaluation, and optimization of these optical components.
    • AFIM enables the achievement of high-quality IR images through precise control of diffraction patterns.