title: Design of a circular Dammann grating.
abstract: A novel circular Dammann grating is proposed to generate uniform-intensity impulse rings corresponding to different diffraction orders in the far field. The intensities of the rings are determined by the coefficients of the circular sine series decomposition of the grating function. The definition of diffraction efficiency and uniformity for this novel device are described. Numerical solutions of binary phase circular Dammann gratings are presented. A binary phase three-order circular Dammann grating of pi phase depth is fabricated by an e-beam direct writing technique and is experimentally demonstrated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong. shuai.zhao@plink.cityu.edu.hk
authors.forename: Shuai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Po Sheun
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Chung