title: Parametric dependencies of high-diffraction-order achromatized aplanatic configurations that employ circular or crossed-linear diffractive optical elements.
abstract: The parametric relationships of achromatized transmissive and reflective diffractive optical elements (DOEs) are explored for a number of configuration classes as a function of diffraction order, focal ratio, wavelength, and field angle. The necessity for blazing high-diffraction-order DOEs is elucidated. The ray image sizes are presented in dimensionless imaging space and thus are applicable to any size of optical system. Several aplanatic configurations are evaluated.
authors.affiliation: Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85271, USA. ameinel@earthlink.net
authors.forename: Aden B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Meinel
authors.forename: Marjorie P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Meinel