Space Soft X-ray and EUV Optics in CIOMP

1 Introduction Since the early of 1980’s,the studies of soft X-ray and EUV optics have been implemented in CIOMP (Changchun Institute of Optics,Fine Mechanics and Physics)．So far,the research system of soft X-ray and EUV optics has been founded including sources,ra- diometry,testing and manufacturing of the super smooth mirror and multilayer coating mirror fabrication．Based on the above technologies,we started to develop the soft X-ray and EUV optical system such as a space EUV solar telescope and a EUV imager．

Retinal axial focusing and multi-layer imaging with a liquid crystal adaptive optics camera

With the help of adaptive optics （AO） technology, cellular level imaging of living human retina can be achieved. Aiming to reduce distressing feelings and to avoid potential drug induced diseases, we attempted to image retina with dilated pupil and froze accommodation without drugs. An optimized liquid crystal adaptive optics camera was adopted for retinal imaging. A novel eye stared system was used for stimulating accommodation and fixating imaging area. Illumination sources and imaging camera kept linkage for focusing and imaging different layers. Four subjects with diverse degree of myopia were imaged. Based on the optical properties of the human eye, the eye stared system reduced the defocus to less than the typical ocular depth of focus. In this way, the illumination light can be projected on certain retina layer precisely. Since that the defocus had been compensated by the eye stared system, the adopted 512 × 512 liquid crystal spatial light modulator （LC-SLM） corrector provided the crucial spatial fidelity to fully compensate high-order aberrations. The Strehl ratio of a subject with -8 diopter myopia was improved to 0.78, which was nearly close to diffraction-limited imaging. By finely adjusting the axial displacement of illumination sources and imaging camera, cone photoreceptors, blood vessels and nerve fiber layer were clearly imaged successfully.

Simulated human eye retina adaptive optics imaging system based on a liquid crystal on silicon device

In order to obtain a clear image of the retina of model eye, an adaptive optics system used to correct the wave-front error is introduced in this paper. The spatial light modulator that we use here is a liquid crystal on a silicon device instead of a conversional deformable mirror. A paper with carbon granule is used to simulate the retina of human eye. The pupil size of the model eye is adjustable （3-7mm）. A Shack-Hartman wave-front sensor is used to detect the wave-front aberration. With this construction, a value of peak-to-valley is achieved to be 0.086 A, where A is wavelength. The modulation transfer functions before and after corrections are compared. And the resolution of this system after correction （691p/m） is very close to the diffraction limit resolution. The carbon granule on the white paper which has a size of 4.7μm is seen clearly. The size of the retina cell is between 4 and 10 μm. So this system has an ability to image the human eye＇s retina.

Instability of a Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystal Formed by Homeotropic Anchoring on Surface Grooves

A method used to treat the elastic distortion of a uniaxial nematic liquid crystal induced by homogeneous anchoring on the surface grooves is generalized to biaxial nematic liquid crystals under the homeotropic anchoring condition.Employing some approximations for the elastic constants,we obtain an additional term in the elastic energy per unit area which depends on the angle between the minor director at infinity and the direction of the grooves,with a period ofπ/2.This leads to instability on the surface grooves so that two states with crossed minor directors are energetically indistinguishable.Our theoretical study explains why the homeotropic alignment method developed for uniaxial liquid crystals loses efficacy for biaxial nematics.

Developing TPA Polymers to Expand Opto—electronic Applications

TPA phenomenon has been paid more and more attention because of a number of emerging applications, including 3D optical data storage, 3D microfabrication, upconverted lasing, photodynamic therapy, and so on. Some strategies have been used to enhance cross sections. Specially innovated donors or acceptors have been screen se-lected and focused in building new chromophore with some applications. The paper summarizes four potential applications of TPA polymers, and reviews several design strategies that have successfully been used to enhance the TPA cross-section.

Fabrication and efficiency measurement of a multilayer-coated ion-beam-etched laminar grating for extreme ultraviolet region

We fabricate and measure a multilayer-coated ion-beam-etched laminar grating for the extreme ultraviolet wavelength region. The fabrication process is carefully controlled so that the grating groove and multilayercoating parameters well meet the design targets. At an incident angle of 10°, the peak diffraction efficiency of the ＋1st order is 20.6% at 14.56 nm and that of the -1st order is 22.1% at 14.65 nm, both close to the theoretical limits.

Application of binary optical element to infrared hyperspectral detection

Binary optical element (BOE) is applied to infrared hyperspectral detector. A new type of infrared hyperspectral detecting image system is designed based on the characteristics of abun-dant color-dispersion of BOE, and an example of combining refractive-diffractive zoom optical sys-tem with Cassegrain system is presented. The system not only has simple structure, long back-working distance and few requirements for material but also can increase the image resolu-tion, abilities of accepting ray energy and registration. Consequently, by adding an appropriate stare array detector to the system, the detecting precision can be raised.

Method to accurate calibrate deposition rates of EUV multilayer coatings

Random thickness error is an important factor which effects the calibration accuracies of deposition rates for extreme ultraviolet （EUV） multilayer coatings fabricated by sputter deposition techniques. A least square fitting method is proposed to determine deposition rates and extract random thickness errors accurately. The validity of this method is shown by evaluating two deposition systems with control abilities of -0.1 nm and better than 0.01 nm respectively.