Incoherent wavefront reconstruction by a retroemission device containing a thin fluorescent film: theory.

A retroemission device (REM) is an incoherent holographic device that represents a lenslet array situated on a substrate containing fluorescent material. Each lenslet focuses each wavelet of an optical wavefront incident on the REM device into a diffraction-limited volume (voxel) in the fluorescent material, so that the voxel coordinates encode the angle of incidence and curvature of the wavelet. The back-propagating fraction of the excited fluorescence is collected by the lenslet and quasi-collimated into a back-propagating wavelet.

Incoherent wavefront reconstruction by a retroemission device.

This Letter addresses wavefront reconstruction by a retroemission device (REM). REM represents a lenslet array mounted on a substrate made of photoluminescent optical material, such as a polymer film impregnated with upconversion nanoparticles. An excitation light wavefront incident on the REM was sampled by the lenslet array piece-wise.