Ideas and Resources


Generating nondiffracting Bessel beams

  1. Axicon Lens

  2. Spherical Aberration

  3. Thin Ring Light Source

    Zero-order Bessel beam created through Fresnel diffraction

Fourier Optics and Spatial filtering

Spatial filtering in optical data-processing,
K.G. Birch

Spatial Filtering in Optical Image Processing,
Lidiya Mishchenko, LTC

Modeling Diffraction by a Circular Aperture Illuminated by a Diverging Light Beam,
William Weiss, LTC


Correction of third-order optical aberrations

Amplitude and Phase filters for mitigation of defocus and third-order aberrations,
Samir Mezouari et al.

Circularly symmetric phase filters for control of primary third-order aberrations: coma and astigmatism,
Samir Mezouari et al.


Acoustics

Mechanical Evidence of the Orbital Angular Momentum to Energy Ratio of Vortex Beams,
Michael P. MacDonald, 2012


Physics Education

Photonics Explorer: working within the curriculum to engage young minds,
OPN Optics and Photonic News, July/Aug 2012


Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging

An introduction to the Fourier transform: Relationship to MRI,
Thomas A. Gallagher

An introduction to quantum mechanics to understand NMR,
James Keeler