Abstract
We report a new optical element which diffuses 1-dimensional laser beam into an omnidirectional plane beam. By numerical simulation and experiment we have shown that the rays of the transmitted light propagate to all directions in a 2-dimensional plane through infinite refractions and reflections.
© 2004 Optical Society of America
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