Wavefront spacing and Gouy phase in presence of primary spherical aberration

X. Pang; D.G. Fischer; T.D. Visser

doi:10.1364/OL.39.000088

Wavefront spacing and Gouy phase in presence of primary spherical aberration

X. Pang, D.G. Fischer, T.D. Visser

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We study the Gouy phase of a scalar wavefield that is focused by a lens suffering from primary spherical aberration. It is found that the Gouy phase has different behaviors at the two sides of the intensity maximum. This results in a systematic increase of the successive wavefront spacings around the diffraction focus. Since all lenses have some amount of spherical aberration, this observation has implications for optical calibration and metrology. © 2013 Optical Society of America.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	88-91
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	39
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.39.000088
Publication status	Published - 2014

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Wavefront spacing and Gouy phase in presence of primary spherical aberration

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