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The band-extended angular spectrum method (ASM) is pro- forced to be zero and only the non-aliased TF components are
posed in this Letter for both near- and far-field diffraction used, the effective non-aliased bandwidth of the TF would
calculation with high accuracy. Due to the aliasing problem decrease rapidly when the propagation distance increases [20].
of the transfer function (TF), the ASM is not suitable for By increasing the effective sampling number inside the non-
far-field diffraction calculation. For band-limited ASM, aliased band of the TF, the propagation distance could be further
the non-aliased bandwidth of the TF would shrink rapidly expanded. However, the effective bandwidth is not extended,
with the increase of the propagation distance, which would and the sampling pitch of the destination plane is bigger than
reduce the calculation accuracy in the far field. For the pro- that of the input plane due to the oversampling in the spatial fre-
posed band-extended ASM, the non-aliased bandwidth is quency domain [21]. It should be noticed that it is the effective
significantly extended by rearranging the sampling points bandwidth of the TF that mainly influences the computational
in the spatial frequency domain. Therefore, more frequency accuracy of ASM.
components of the TF contribute to the wave-field calcu- In this Letter, a band-extended ASM is proposed, where
lation, leading to a much wider propagation range and a the effective non-aliased bandwidth of the TF is extended
higher computational accuracy. © 2020 Optical Society of
by rearranging the sampling points in the spatial frequency
America
domain. The sampling points used to sample the aliased TF in
https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.385553 ASM or zeros in band-limited ASM are relocated to sample the
TF components beyond the “limited band.” All the sampling
points are effectively used in the calculation, which provides a
Scalar diffraction calculation is a fundamental research topic
involved in a wide range of applications, including digital full utilization of the computational space-bandwidth product.
holography [1–5], computer holography [6–8], diffraction Therefore, more spatial frequency components contribute to
tomography [9,10], and beam shaping [11,12]. The angular the wave propagation, which leads to an accurate calculation of
spectrum method (ASM) is a strict solution of the scalar diffrac- the diffraction field in a wide range.
tion theory without paraxial approximation and is widely used Equation (1) is the TF of ASM,
to model the wave propagation [13,14], particularly in the high q
numerical aperture and oblique illumination cases [15,16]. The H( f x , f y ) = exp ikz 1 − (λ f x )2 − (λ f y )2 , (1)
drawback of ASM is that it only works well for near field because
there would be aliasing in the transfer function (TF) for the
long-distance diffraction calculation [17]. where f x , f y are the coordinates in the spatial frequency
Two typical solutions for ASM to model far-field propaga- domain, k = 2π/λ is the wave number associated with the
tions are (1) padding zeros to the source window to narrow the wavelength λ, and z is the propagation distance. Take one-
sampling pitch in the spatial frequency domain for a non-aliased dimensional signal as example, when discretizing, f x is within
TF [18,19]; and (2) forcing the aliased part of the TF to be the range of [−1/21x , 1/21x ), where 1x is the spatial sam-
zero, which is usually called band-limited ASM [20]. For the p Suppose there are 2 N points to
pling pitch of the input plane.
first solution, the computational complexity would increase sample the phase ϕ = kz 1 − (λ f x )2 with a sampling pitch
dramatically when the propagation distance increases. The huge 1 f = 1/2N1x . (The reason for factor 2 will be explained fur-
computation burden of the zero-padding method is mitigated ther in text.) The highest frequency component without aliasing
by linear convolution and fast Fourier transform (FFT), while is calculated under the principle that the maximum local spatial
it is still large, and lots of sampling points are wasted [19]. For frequency should be no more than half the sampling rate [13],
the second solution, because the aliased TF components are which is
G ( f x ) = G m f 1 f _new
X
g (m x 1x ) exp −i2π m f m x 1 f _new 1x , (9)
=
mx Fig. 3. Diagram of the simulation scenario. The calculation win-
dow is double size of the source window by zero padding to avoid
A ( f x ) = A m f 1 f _new = G m f 1 f _new H m f 1 f _new . periodic convolution errors.
(10)
However, Eq. (9) cannot be √calculated by FFT because S = N1x filling the source window. To avoid the periodic con-
1 f _new = 2 f x _extend /2N = 1/ 2Nλz 6 = 1 f = 1/2N1x , volution errors [17], N/2 zeros are padded on each side of the
which is the sampling pitch given by FFT. For a given distance z, source window. Hence, the total sampling number at the input
there is actually a scaling factor R = 1 f _new /1 f between these plane is 2 N, as N = 1024 is the sampling number of the source
two sampling pitches. Therefore, Eq. (9) can be rewritten as window. This is also the reason why we use 2 N as the sampling
number during formula derivation. Parameters of this numeri-
G( f x ) = G(m f 1 f _new ) cal calculation are listed in Table 1. The accuracy is defined as
SNR [28], which considers both the amplitude and phase distri-
butions, of the calculated wave fields u(x ) as compared with the
X
= g (m x 1x ) exp(−i2πm f m x R1 f 1x ), (11)
mx reference field u ref (x ) calculated by the Rayleigh–Sommerfeld
(R-S) integral [13]:
and our task becomes to find a method to achieve this scaled
|u (x )|2 dx
R
FFT. There are two fast methods: chirp-z transform [22,23] and
non-uniform FFT (NUFFT) [24–26], which can be used to SNR = S
, (14)
|u (x ) − αu ref (x )|2 dx
R
calculate Eq. (11). Chirp-z transform is based on convolution, S
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