Design of paraxial diffractive elements with the computer-aided design (CAD) system DigiOpt

User-friendly computer-aided design tools for the implementation of diffractive optical elements may on the one hand influence the acceptance of diffractive optics in industry and on the other help to simplify research work in this area. In the present paper we describe the software system DIGIOPT which was designed to fulfill our demands on the design of paraxial diffractive elements for optical information processing applications.