A hologram is an optical element storing phase and possibly amplitude information enabling the reconstruction of a three-dimensional image of an object by illumination and scattering of a coherent beam of light, and the image is generated at the same wavelength as the input laser beam. In recent years, it was shown that information can be stored in nanometric antennas giving rise to ultrathin c...

The main principles and some applications of Bragg-Fresnel multilayer optics are described. An elliptical Bragg-Fresnel multilayer lens (BFML), designed and fabricated in the IMT RAS has been used for Zdimensional focusing of the white X-ray synchrotron beam. For the beam energy of about 12 KeV the spot size checked with the knife edge method was about lpm. As an example of a successful applica...

We introduce a novel polarizing beam splitter that uses the anisotropic spectral reflectivity (ASR) characteristics of a high spatial frequency multilayer binary grating. By combining the form birefringence effect of a high spatial frequency grating with the resonant reflectivity of a periodic multilayer structure, the ASR characteristics for the two orthogonal linear polarizations are obtained...

Optimizing antenna arrays to approximate desired far field radiation patterns is of exceptional interest in smart antenna technology. This paper shows how to apply artificial intelligence, in the form of neural networks, to achieve specific beam-forming with linear antenna arrays. Multilayer feed-forward neural networks are used to maximize multiple main beams’ radiation of a linear antenna arr...

A tunable polarimeter using multilayer interference coatings as both reflection polarizer and transmission phase retarder is described. The portable device bolts onto existing chambers and its rotation axis is precisely aligned to the beam. The upstream transmission phase retarder is tunable by varying its incidence angle, and the downstream polarizer is tunable by translating a laterally grade...

We propose a technique to compute the effect of a dielectric multilayer radome. This technique uses a gaussian beam expansion associated with an evaluation of the physical optics spectral integrals using the asymptotic steepest descent path method. Then, we compare an iterative and a global process to take into account the multiple reflections inside the radome. Finally, a numeric validation is...

Multilayer x-ray optics provide a useful alternative to perfect crystal optics when used as beam conditioners for hard x-rays (~8 keV) in applications that do not require high energy and/or angular resolution. Perfect crystal optics, however, can be cut in such a way that allows one to partially engineer the input and output beam widths and divergence to desired values. Such optics, termed asym...

In this paper, model reference neural network structure is used as a controller for vibration suppression of the Euler–Bernoulli beam under the excitation of moving mass travelling along a vibrating path. The non-dimensional equation of motion the beam acted upon by a moving mass is achieved.  A Dirac-delta function is used to describe the position of the moving mass along the beam and its iner...

The main advantage of Bragg reflection from a multilayer mirror as a monochromator for hard X-rays, is the higher photon flux density because of the larger spectral bandpass compared with crystal lattice reflection. The main disadvantage lies in the strong modulations of the reflected beam profile. This is a major issue for micro-imaging applications, where multilayer-based monochromators are f...

Acquisition of quasi-monoenergetic ("pristine") depth-dose curves is an essential task in the frame of commissioning and quality assurance of a proton therapy treatment head. For pencil beam scanning delivery modes this is often accomplished by measuring the integral ionization in a plane perpendicular to the axis of an unscanned beam. We focus on the evaluation of three integral detectors: two...