啃光学论文的笔记（1）

     Alessandro Zannotti、Cornelia Denz等人在NC上刊发了一篇《Shaping caustics into propagation-invariant light》的论文，我把我对该文章某些部分的一些记录与见解记在这里，注释部分会在“%”后标出。

       标题的意思为《将具有焦散现象的光变为传播过程中不变的光​​​​​​​》。

%焦散——光线穿过透明物体时因表面不平整使光线折射没有平行发生，即发生漫折射。

Structured light has revolutionized optical particle manipulation, nano-scaled material pro-
cessing, and high-resolution imaging.

        结构光已经彻底改变了光学粒子操作、纳米级材料处理和高分辨率成像。

%结构光是一组由投影仪和摄像头组成的系统结构。用投影仪投射特定的光信息到物体表面后及背景后，由摄像头采集。根据物体造成的光信号的变化来计算物体的位置和深度等信息，进而复原整个三维空间。(from www.Baidu.com)

In particular, propagation-invariant light fields such as Bessel, Airy, or Mathieu beams show high robustness and have a self-healing nature.

        特别是传播不变光场，如贝塞尔光束、艾里光束或马蒂厄光束，有好的稳健性和自愈特征。

To generalize such beneficial features, these light fields can be understood in terms of caustics.
However, only simple caustics have found applications in material processing, optical trap-
ping, or cell microscopy. Thus, these technologies would greatly benefit from methods to
engineer arbitrary intensity shapes well beyond the standard families of caustics.

        为了概括(扩大运用)这些有益的特性，这些光场可以用焦散来理解。然而，只有简单焦散学在材料加工、光学捕获或细胞显微技术中得到了应用。因此，这些技术将大大受益于(能够)设计出远远超出标准系列焦散的任意强度形状的方法。

We introduce a general approach to arbitrarily shape propagation-invariant beams by smart beam
design based on caustics. We develop two complementary methods, and demonstrate var-
ious propagation-invariant beams experimentally, ranging from simple geometric shapes to
complex image configurations such as words.

        我们介绍了一种基于焦散学的智能光束设计方法来塑造任意形状传播不变光束的一般方法。我们开发了两种互补的方法，并在实验中演示了各种传播不变光束，范围从简单的几何形状到复杂的图像形状，如文字。

Our approach generalizes caustic light from the currently known small subset to a complete set of tailored propagation-invariant caustics with intensities concentrated around any desired curve.

        我们的方法将焦散光从目前已知的小子集(分组)推广到一个完整的定制传播不变焦散集，其强度集中在任何期望曲线附近。