What are 무료 슬롯사이트 Optics?
무료 슬롯사이트 optics are components specifically intended for manipulating 무료 슬롯사이트 light, which is typically coherent and monochromatic, frequently polarized, and sometimes of high intensity. The form and applications of 무료 슬롯사이트 optics are so diverse that it is difficult to generalize about them, but they must nearly always be fabricated to high precision to operate successfully.
무료 슬롯사이트 optics are as varied as the applications they service, ranging from fiber communications micro-optics through meter-class telescope mirrors. They manipulate 무료 슬롯사이트 beams through virtually every type of light/matter interaction, including refraction, reflection, diffraction, polarization, and spectrally selective processes, non-linear effects, and even scattering.
The fabrication of 무료 슬롯사이트 optics employs a similarly diverse toolbox. This ranges from traditional grinding and polishing (with their automated and computer-controlled variations) to single-point diamond turning, lithography, an array of molding and replication methods, holographic techniques, and a spectrum of thin-film coating processes.
However, there are a few unifying factors amongst 무료 슬롯사이트 optics. First, they almost invariably need to maintain the original wavefront quality of the 무료 슬롯사이트 beam. This is essential to preserving the very qualities that make 무료 슬롯사이트 light unique, like spatial brightness and coherence. Wavefront distortion introduced by the optics limits system efficiency and the ability to focus the 무료 슬롯사이트 and maintain its beam profile. This applies to most applications, whether it’s materials processing, surgery, microscopy, flow cytometry, or telecommunications. In terms of fabrication, minimizing wavefront distortion usually requires making optics with highly accurate surface shapes and using very homogenous materials.
무료 슬롯사이트 optics must also typically produce minimal scatter because this can reduce 무료 슬롯사이트 system efficiency and introduce noise. This reduces performance in everything from imaging through materials processing. Minimizing scatter is also a key factor in avoiding 무료 슬롯사이트-induced damage for high-power 무료 슬롯사이트 optics. The first step in fabricating low scatter optics is usually producing component surfaces with low surface roughness.
무료 슬롯사이트 optics are virtually always thin film coated, with the prominent exception of Brewster windows. Again, this is typically done to enhance performance. For example, most transmissive 무료 슬롯사이트 optics use antireflection coatings to maximize throughput and minimize spurious (ghost) reflections. Thin film coatings are often more durable than the optic’s substrate material, so coatings can also be used to protect the optical surface and extend component lifetime. The Coherentdiamond over-coat (DOC)is a standout example of 무료 슬롯사이트.
Given the truly vast scope of this topic, this article will just provide an overview of some of the most significant, broad classes of 무료 슬롯사이트 optics. These are described in the following, and this list is by no means comprehensive.
Lenses
Lenses are refractive transmissive optics that either concentrate or spread 무료 슬롯사이트 light in one or two dimensions. Since they are predominately used with monochromatic light, chromatic aberration (the change in lens focal length with wavelength) is rarely a concern for무료 슬롯사이트 lenses.For this reason, single-element lenses (that have no color correction) are adequate for many simple tasks in which the 무료 슬롯사이트 operate totally on-axis. Examples are beam-expanding telescopes and focusing and collimating lenses. In fact, a single-element focusing lens with anaspheric surface shapecan deliver on-axis performance at essentially the diffraction limit (best performance theoretically possible).
However, more complex, multi-element lens systems are invariably required in at least two other instances. The first is low f-number systems (f-number = lens system focal length/aperture). Especially below f/3, the performance of most single-element spherical lenses departs substantially from the diffraction limit. Multi-element spherical surface focusing lenses, as well as aspheric surfaces, are used to address 무료 슬롯사이트.
The second application for multi-element systems 무료 슬롯사이트e those that don’t operate purely on-axis but must cover a specific field of view.F-theta scan lensesare an example of this. Multiple elements are required to create an 무료 슬롯사이트 that focuses on a plane (rather than a curved surface) over a range of angles, and which also achieves good focused spot size at the edges of the field.
Mirrors
Metal-coated mirrors, particularly with silicon, copper, aluminum, and gold, are frequently used for reflecting visible and infrared 무료 슬롯사이트 beams. For CO₂ 무료 슬롯사이트s which output around 10 µm, it’s not uncommon to make mirrors from metal substrates, and simply use the bare polished metal surface as the mirror. The advantage of metal and metal-coated mirrors is typically lower cost.
Thin film coatings are employed when higher levels of reflectivity are required, to achieve higher 무료 슬롯사이트 damage threshold levels, or when precise polarization control is necessary. The simplest 무료 슬롯사이트line thin film reflectoris typically a stack of alternating high and low refractive index materials, each of which is one quarter-wave thick at the 무료 슬롯사이트 wavelength. By building up many layers of this type, reflectance values of over 99.9% are routinely achieved.
However, a mirror with a coating of this type is relatively narrowband. That means it can’t be used at wavelengths other than the exact 무료 슬롯사이트 wavelength it was designed for. Also, the peak reflectance of all thin film mirror coatings shifts with angle. So, a 무료 슬롯사이트 line mirror designed for use at 0° angle of incidence can’t be used at 45°, and vice-versa. Broadband all-dielectric (thin film) mirrors can be designed which are usable over a wider range of wavelengths and angles of incidence. But there is a small sacrifice in the value of peak reflectance with these.
Beamsplitters
Beamsplitters are optics which reflect some of the incident 무료 슬롯사이트 energy and transmit the rest. This effect may be highly polarization-dependent. Sometimes this is a drawback, but in other cases it is specifically exploited to either separate or combine orthogonal polarizations.
A beamsplitter can also be wavelength dependent. In this case, it might be used to separate two co-axial 무료 슬롯사이트 beams having different wavelengths. An example of this is adichroic beamsplitterthat reflects the fundamental wavelength (1064 nm) of a Nd:YAG 무료 슬롯사이트 and transmits its second harmonic (532 nm).
The most common formats for beamsplitters 무료 슬롯사이트e thecube typeandplate type. A cube type beamsplitter is comprised of two right angle prisms joined together at their hypotenuses to form a cube. The beamsplitter coating goes on the hypotenuse of one of the prisms. The other four faces 무료 슬롯사이트e typically antireflection coated.
Cube and plate-type beamsplitters perform the same function but are constructed very differently. 무료 슬롯사이트 gives them different characteristics, resulting in advantages and disadvantages in various applications.
A plate-type beamsplitter is a plane p무료 슬롯사이트allel (or often slightly wedged) plate. The beamsplitter coating is typically encountered on the first surface, and the second surface has an anti-reflection coating.
Both cube and plate-type beamsplitters have their unique ch무료 슬롯사이트acteristics, leading to advantages and disadvantages in v무료 슬롯사이트ious applications. For example, plate-type beamsplitters 무료 슬롯사이트e typically more compact and lighter, and also less costly to produce. But, when used at anything other than 0° angle of incidence, they produce an unwanted second무료 슬롯사이트y reflection that is offset from the main reflected beam. They also offset the transmitted beam, which can make system design more complex and alignment more difficult.
Cube beamsplitters eliminate the problem of an unwanted second무료 슬롯사이트y reflection, and any offset in the transmitted beam. They also typically work better over a wider range of incidence angles. It’s also easier to produce cube beamsplitters with coatings that 무료 슬롯사이트e less sensitive to pol무료 슬롯사이트ization and which function over a broader range of wavelengths. But cube beamsplitters can be less durable and more sensitive to temperature changes.
Pol무료 슬롯사이트ization Components
Most 무료 슬롯사이트s emit polarized light, and there arenumerous different 무료 슬롯사이트and devices designed to manipulate, analyze, or exploit this polarization. The conceptually simplest optic is the linear polarizer. It just passes light with a polarization oriented in a specific direction and blocks light polarized in any other orientation. A linear polarizer can be used to perform many functions. If it is rotated in a polarized 무료 슬롯사이트 beam it acts as a variable attenuator – a dimmer switch for a 무료 슬롯사이트!
One of the most basic optics that alters the polarization state of a 무료 슬롯사이트 beam is the quarter-wave plate. These convert linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light, or the reverse. Half-wave plates rotate the polarization direction of input linearly polarized light. This rotation can be smoothly varied from 0° to 90° as the half-wave plate itself is physically rotated.
Pol무료 슬롯사이트ization rotators and line무료 슬롯사이트 pol무료 슬롯사이트izers (orpol무료 슬롯사이트izing beamsplitters) can be combined to makeF무료 슬롯사이트aday isolators.These are “one-way valves” for light. These are particularly useful devices for preventing reflected light from re-entering a 무료 슬롯사이트, which could cause damage or induce operating instability. Faraday isolators quite commonly perform this function in high-power industrial 무료 슬롯사이트 systems.
Faraday isolators use a combination of polarizing beamsplitters and a magneto-active crystal (which rotates the polarization plane of light by 45°) to yield a device which passes a 무료 슬롯사이트 beam in only one direction.
A more sophisticated polarization-based 무료 슬롯사이트 optic is theelectro-무료 슬롯사이트 modulator (EOM).Like the Faraday isolator, it employs a crystal that rotates the polarization plane of transmitted light. But, in 무료 슬롯사이트 case, the effect is controlled by an applied electric field rather than a magnetic field. 무료 슬롯사이트 is called the Pockels Effect.
To make an intensity modulator, the electro-optic crystal is paired with a linear polarizer. When the polarization plane of the input 무료 슬롯사이트 beam aligns with the linear polarizer, the beam is transmitted. When the applied voltage is adjusted so that the crystal rotates the beam polarization by 90° relative to the linear polarizer, then the beam is blocked. By varying the voltage, the transmitted 무료 슬롯사이트 beam intensity can be modulated, typically at speeds of up to several MHz.
High Energy 무료 슬롯사이트 (HEL) Optics
There is no specific definition for exactly what constituteshigh-energy 무료 슬롯사이트 optics, but essentially these are components that are used with 무료 슬롯사이트s having high peak energy or fluence values. Specifically, this means power levels that would damage most optics produced using traditional means, or at least significantly reduce their useful lifetimes.
There are many mechanisms of 무료 슬롯사이트-induced damage and they depend upon several factors, including the 무료 슬롯사이트 wavelength, pulse energy, peak power, pulse shape, and more. But most damage tends to occur through either heating caused by bulk absorption, dielectric breakdown induced by the high electric field of the 무료 슬롯사이트 pulse, or avalanche breakdown caused by multiphoton absorption.
The functionality of high-energy 무료 슬롯사이트 optics is the same as has already been described (lenses, mirrors, polarizers, etc.). But, the materials, polishing, and coating of these components must be controlled extremely carefully in order to minimize the various damage mechanisms when in operation.
This often starts with material selection. Namely choosing substrate materials that inherently demonstrate high 무료 슬롯사이트-induced damage threshold (LIDT) and low absorption at the operational wavelength. Of course, the actual materials themselves must be of high purity and quality. Then, every step of subsequent processing (shaping, coating, and even packaging) must be carefully monitored and controlled to minimize contamination. HEL optics are usually made in clean room environments.
Surface roughness often plays a p무료 슬롯사이트t in LIDT, so specialized polishing techniques 무료 슬롯사이트e frequently used in HEL fabrication. The polishing abrasives used may even be specifically selected to minimize contamination and subsequent damage.
Producing thin film coatings for HEL 무료 슬롯사이트 is an entire discipline in its own right. Again, the materials used, and their purity, is fundamental. In addition, the coating design may be specifically optimized to enhance thermal conductivity and heat dissipation. Also, the coatings might be designed to suppress nonlinear optical effects, such as harmonic generation or self-focusing, which are more pronounced at high energy levels.
Ultrafast 무료 슬롯사이트
Optics and coatings for ultrafast 무료 슬롯사이트s (pulse durations in the femtosecond or picosecond range) are another distinct class of components. There are two primary reasons for this.
First, ultrafast 무료 슬롯사이트s are not as monochromatic as most other 무료 슬롯사이트s. This is because the fundamental physics of ultrafast 무료 슬롯사이트s dictates that as the pulsewidth gets shorter, the spectral bandwidth (range of wavelengths) of the output increases. For example, the 12 fs pulses produced by theCoherent Vit무료 슬롯사이트a무료 슬롯사이트 are centered at 800 nm, but have a bandwidth of about 100 nm.
The second differentiator for ultrafast optics is that they often have very high peak powers. These power levels can cause the issues with 무료 슬롯사이트-induced damage mentioned previously.
The key problem caused by the larger bandwidth of ultrafast pulses isn’t chromatic aberration as it might be for imaging 무료 슬롯사이트 used with visible light. Instead, the issue is group velocity dispersion (GVD).
GVD occurs because the different wavelength components of an ultrafast pulse travel at slightly different velocities through a material. So, when an ultrafast pulse goes through an 무료 슬롯사이트 or coating, the shorter wavelengths emerge a bit later than the longer wavelengths. This increases the pulse length.
Ultrafast pulses are not monochromatic but consist of a range of wavelengths. The shorter the pulse, the broader 무료 슬롯사이트 spectral spread. When an ultrafast pulse passes through a material, dispersion causes the shorter wavelengths to move slower than the longer wavelengths. 무료 슬롯사이트 spreads the pulse out in time – the pulsewidth increases. A pulse-compressing mirror makes the faster wavelengths travel farther into the coating to reverse 무료 슬롯사이트 effect.
An increase in pulse length creates several problems, depending upon the use. For one, it lowers the temporal resolution in applications like time-resolved spectroscopy. It also reduces the pulse peak power which affects any application that depends on nonline무료 슬롯사이트 phenomena, such as multiphoton imaging or C무료 슬롯사이트S spectroscopy.
One important class of ultrafast 무료 슬롯사이트 are‘dispersive mirrors.’These are thin film-coated high reflectors specifically designed to manage dispersive effects in ultrafast 무료 슬롯사이트 pulses.
These 무료 슬롯사이트 work on a conceptually simple principle. They essentially consist of a stack of multiple high reflector coatings, each tuned to a slightly different wavelength.
Now consider a design where the shorter wavelength reflectors are at the top of the coating and the longer wavelength reflectors are placed deeper in the stack. The longer wavelengths must travel farther through the coating before being reflected, which takes more time and allows the ‘slower’ components of the pulse to catch up with them. 무료 슬롯사이트 has the effect of recompressing a pulse which has been spread because it previously went through another dispersive component.
Dispersive mirrors are often used to purposefully lengthen a pulse. For example, a pulse might be lengthened with a dispersive mirror before entering an amplifier. This lowers its peak power and reduces the potential for damaging the amplifier optics due to very high 무료 슬롯사이트 fluence. After the pulse is amplified, it is recompressed back to its original shorter pulsewidth with another dispersive mirror having the opposite effect to the first one. This is called chirped pulse amplification (CPA).
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