Ray tracing the Wigner distribution function for optical simulations

Marco Mout; Michael Wick; Florian Bociort; Joerg Petschulat; Paul Urbach

doi:10.1117/1.OE.57.1.014106

Ray tracing the Wigner distribution function for optical simulations

Marco Mout^*, Michael Wick, Florian Bociort, Joerg Petschulat, Paul Urbach

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Abstract

We study a simulation method that uses the Wigner distribution function to incorporate wave optical effects in an established framework based on geometrical optics, i.e., a ray tracing engine. We use the method to calculate point spread functions and show that it is accurate for paraxial systems but produces unphysical results in the presence of aberrations. The cause of these anomalies is explained using an analytical model.

Original language	English
Article number	014106
Journal	Optical Engineering
Volume	57
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.1.014106
Publication status	Published - 2018

Keywords

diffraction
geometric optics
simulations
Wigner distribution function

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