Most cited books and articles on diffractive optics

Diffraction optics has been a hot topic in both academic and industrial fields in the last several decades. Here we list the most cited books and articles on this topic

1.Micro optics: elements, systems and applications. Herzig Hans Peter, 1997 (512 citations)

2.Optical tweezer arrays and optical substrates created with diffractive optics. Dufresne Eric R., Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol.69, Issue 5,pp. 1974 – 1977, 1998, (416 citations)

3.Diffractive Optics for Industrial and Commercial Applications. Turunen Jari; Wyrowski, Frank 03-1998 (336 citations)

4. Refractive transmission of light and beam shaping with metallic nano-optic lenses. Sun Zhijun, Applied Physics Letters ,Vol.85 ,Issue 4,pp. 642 – 644 (215 citations)

5.Ultrafast heterodyne-detected transient-grating spectroscopy using diffractive optics. Gregory D. Goodno, Gami Dadusc, and R. J. Dwayne Miller, JOSA B, Vol. 15, Issue 6, pp. 1791-1794, 1998, (201 citations)

6.Gray-scale masks for diffractive-optics fabrication: I. Commercial slide imagers. Thomas J. Suleski and Donald C. O'Shea ,Applied Optics, Vol. 34, Issue 32, pp. 7507-7517, 1995, (180 citations)

7.Two-dimensional spectroscopy using diffractive optics based phased-locked photon echoes. Cowan M., Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 386, issue 1-3, pp. 184-189, 2004, (174 citations)

8.Digital Diffractive Optics: An Introduction to Planar Diffractive Optics and Related Technology Kress, B.; Meyrueis, P.,Digital Diffractive Optics: An Introduction to Planar Diffractive Optics and Related Technology, by B. Kress, P. Meyrueis, pp. 396. ISBN 0-471-98447-7. Wiley-VCH , October 2000. (167 citations)

9.Digital holography as part of diffractive optics F Wyrowski and O Bryngdahl 1991 Rep. Prog. Phys. 54 1481 doi:10.1088/0034-4885/54/12/001, (158 citations)

10.Diffractive Optics: Design, Fabrication,and Test. Donald C O'Shea; Thomas J Suleski; Alan D Kathman; Dennis W Prather 2003 DOI: 10.1117/3.527861, (133 citations)

11.Cost-effective mass fabrication of multilevel diffractive optical elements by use of a single optical exposure with a gray-scale mask on high-energy beam-sensitive glass. Walter Däschner, Pin Long, Robert Stein, Chuck Wu, and S. H. Lee,Applied Optics, Vol. 36, Issue 20, pp. 4675-4680, 1997, (115 citations)

12.Nanofabrication and diffractive optics for high-resolution x-ray applications. Anderson, E.H. ,Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures,Vol.18, Issue 6,pp. 2970 - 2975, 2000, (116 citations)

13.Paraxial-domain diffractive elements with 100% efficiency based on polarization gratings. Jani Tervo and Jari Turunen ,Optics Letters, Vol. 25, Issue 11, pp. 785-786, 2000, (109 citations)

14.Harmonic diffractive lenses. Donald W. Sweeney and Gary E. Sommargren, Applied Optics, Vol. 34, Issue 14, pp. 2469-2475, 1995, (103 citations)

15.Diffractive optics applied to eyepiece design. Michael D. Missig and G. Michael Morris, Applied Optics, Vol. 34, Issue 14, pp. 2452-2461, 1995, (94 citations)

16Design and fabrication of blazed binary diffractive elements with sampling periods smaller than the structural cutoff. Philippe Lalanne, Simion Astilean, Pierre Chavel, Edmond Cambril and Huguette Launois, JOSA A, Vol. 16, Issue 5, pp. 1143-1156, 1999, (89 citations)

17.Diffractive-optics-based beam combination of a phase-locked fiber laser array. Eric C. Cheung, James G. Ho, Gregory D. Goodno, Robert R. Rice, Josh Rothenberg, Peter Thielen, Mark Weber and Michael Wickham, Optics Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 4, pp. 354-356, 2008, (88 citations)

18.Synthetic diffractive optics in the resonance domain. Eero Noponen, Antti Vasara, Jari Turunen, J. Michael Miller, and Mohammad R. Taghizadeh ,JOSA A, Vol. 9, Issue 7, pp. 1206-1213, 1992, (88 citations)

19.Fabrication of Fresnel zone plate embedded in silica glass by femtosecond laser pulses. Wataru Watanabe, Daisuke Kuroda, Kazuyoshi Itoh, and Junji Nishii,Optics Express, Vol. 10, Issue 19, pp. 978-983, 2002, (86 citations)

20.Gray-scale masks for diffractive-optics fabrication: II. Spatially filtered halftone screens. Donald C. O'Shea and Willie S. Rockward ,Applied Optics, Vol. 34, Issue 32, pp. 7518-7526, 1995, (85 citations)

21.Iterative algorithm for the design of diffractive phase elements for laser beam shaping. J.S. Liu and M. Taghizadeh, Optics Letters, (78 Citations)

22.Diffractive optics-based six-wave mixing: Heterodyne detection of the full χ(5) tensor of liquid CS2. K. J. Kubarych, C. J. Milne, S. Lin, V. Astinov, and R. J. D. Miller,Journal of Chemical Physics ,Vol. 116, Issue 5, 2016, 2002, (74 citations)

23.Diffractive optics based two-color six-wave mixing: phase contrast heterodyne detection of the fifth order Raman response of liquids V. Astinova,K.J.,Kubarycha,C.J, Milnea,R.J,Dwayne Miller,Chemical Physics Letters, Vol 327, Issues 5–6, pp.334–342, 2000 (67 citations)

24.Floral Iridescence, Produced by Diffractive Optics, Acts As a Cue for Animal Pollinators Heather M. Whitney,Mathias Kolle,Piers Andrew,Lars Chittka,Ullrich Steiner,Beverley J. Glover, Science: Vol. 323 no. 5910 pp. 130-133, 2 January 2009 (66 citations)

25.Design and performance of diffractive optics for custom laser resonators James R. Leger, Diana Chen, and Greg Mowry ,Applied Optics, Vol. 34, Issue 14, pp. 2498-2509, 1995, (64 citations)