Experimental demonstration of a continuously variant fractional fourier transformer

D Dragoman; M Dragoman; K H Brenner

doi:10.1364/ao.38.004985

Experimental demonstration of a continuously variant fractional fourier transformer

Appl Opt. 1999 Aug 10;38(23):4985-9. doi: 10.1364/ao.38.004985.

Authors

D Dragoman¹, M Dragoman, K H Brenner

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physics, University of Bucharest, PO Box BG-63, 96900 Bucharest, Romania. ddragoman@hotmail.com

PMID: 18323988
DOI: 10.1364/ao.38.004985

Abstract

We demonstrate that an off-axis illuminated hemispherical-rod microlens acts as a fractional Fourier transformer with a continuously varying degree of fractionality. A complete theoretical treatment of the device as well as experimental results are presented.