Abstract:
A method was developed based on the diffractive micro-optics theory for design and fabrication of diffractive micro-optics elements employed in infrared wavelength range. Several elements were fabricated by standard semiconductor technological process. Infrared diffractive elements were mainly used to form complex light fields, and both of the intensity or amplitude and the phase of light out from the elements mentioned above, can be processed efficiently. Above all, the diffractive micro-optics elements produced by the introduced method can transfer common Gaussian beams into desired images which have been affected by atmospheric turbulence through creating fine patterns over the surface of the elements, and the structures can be used to generate turbulence wavefront for simulating the light field in atmospheric turbulence, and then represent wavefront for evaluating the influence of atmospheric turbulence.