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ZEMAX Users Knowledge Base?- /kb How to Design Diffractive Optics Using the Binary 2 surface /kb/articles/42/1/How-to-Design-Diffractive-Optics-Using-the-Binary-2-surface/Page1.html Nam-Hyong Kim ? By?Nam-Hyong Kim Published on?26 September 2005 ? This article explains: How diffractive surfaces are modeled in ZEMAX How to use the?Binary 2 surface to model a diffractive optical element This article illustrates the use of Binary 2 surface using a sample file. The sample file can be downloaded from the last page of the article. The Binary 2 Surface ZEMAX Development Corporation thanks Mr. Robert E. Fischer of Optics 1 for the permission to use the graphics from his book Optical System Design, and also for providing us the original graphic files. Many surfaces?in ZEMAX can have diffractive power in addition to refractive power. Diffractive power is independent of the index and the surface sag?and?changes the?phase of the rays.? For more information on how diffractive surfaces are modeled in ZEMAX, please refer to the article How Diffractive Surfaces are Modeled in ZEMAX. The diffractive power?in a Binary 2 surface introduces continuous phase?change across the?surface?according to?the following formula:?where the coefficients Ai are in units of radians. Since the phase?change?is continuous across the surface,?a Binary 2 surface represents an ideal binary diffractive optical element, in which the size of the binary (discrete) steps are infinitesimally small or at least?very small compared to the wavelength. Generally, the physical DOE modeled by the Binary 2 surface will have diffractive zones with?varying period as a function of radial distance from the vertex, as shown in the following diagram.?ZEMAX can calculate the?radial coordinates?of each diffraction zone, where the phase differs exactly by 2? from adjacent zones. Figure 13.5 from Optical System DesignThe amount of phase in waves?added by a Binary 2 surface at a particular radial coordinate is