title: Compact red-green-blue beam illuminator and expander.
abstract: A compact multicolor beam illuminator and a compact multicolor beam expander are presented. The illuminator performs the dual task of demultiplexing a narrow red-green-blue (RGB) input beam into three separate beams, each of a different color, and expanding them to yield three separate magnified plane waves. The beam expander expands a narrow RGB input beam into a single magnified RGB plane wave. The design and recording procedures, along with experimental results for a beam illuminator and a beam expander with a magnification of approximately 3, are presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. ferevita@wisemail.weizmann.ac.il
authors.forename: Revital
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shechter
authors.forename: Nandor
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bokor
authors.forename: Yaakov
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Amitai
authors.forename: Asher A
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authors.lastname: Friesem