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Dual self-image technique for beam collimation Herrera Fernández, José María Sánchez Brea, Luis Miguel Torcal Milla, Francisco José Morlanes Calvo, Tomás Bernabeu Martínez, Eusebio 535 Talbot effect Self-imaging Collimation Diffraction Óptica (Física) 2209.19 Óptica Física © 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd. The authors thank to O J Casas for his valuable comments. This work has been supported by project DPI2011-27851 of the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain and the SEGVAUTO-TRIES Tecnologías 2013 CM S2013/MIT-2713 program of the Comunidad de Madrid. We propose an accurate technique for obtaining highly collimated beams, which also allows testing the collimation degree of a beam. It is based on comparing the period of two different self-images produced by a single diffraction grating. In this way, variations in the period of the diffraction grating do not affect to the measuring procedure. Self-images are acquired by two CMOS cameras and their periods are determined by fitting the variogram function of the self-images to a cosine function with polynomial envelopes. This way, loss of accuracy caused by imperfections of the measured self-images is avoided. As usual, collimation is obtained by displacing the collimation element with respect to the source along the optical axis. When the period of both self-images coincides, collimation is achieved. With this method neither a strict control of the period of the diffraction grating nor a transverse displacement, required in other techniques, are necessary. As an example, a LED considering paraxial approximation and point source illumination is collimated resulting a resolution in the divergence of the beam of σ φ = ± μrad. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) Comunidad de Madrid Depto. de Óptica Fac. de Ciencias Físicas TRUE pub 2023-06-18T06:56:11Z 2023-06-18T06:56:11Z 2016-06-14 journal article https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24622 2040-8978 10.1088/2040-8978/18/7/075608 eng DPI2011-27851 SEGVAUTO-TRIES-CM (S2013/MIT-2713) open access application/pdf IOP Publishing