When plane wave is used to illuminate Diffractive optical elements (DOEs), the maximum size of the diffraction pattern is limited by the wavelength of the incident beam, the distance from the DOE to the output plane and the sampling interval of the DOE. In this paper, a method is proposed to magnify the maximum size of the diffraction pattern with an introduced intermediate plane and two-step diffraction calculation. Zero padding is used on the DOE plane, the sampling interval on the intermediate plane is correspondingly decreased, and the size of the diffraction pattern is magnified. The accompanied image aliasing is eliminated by placing a low-pass filter on the intermediate plane. The light field distribution on the output plane conforms two-dimensional sinc function as a consequence of the discretization of phases of DOEs. In order to get a uniform diffraction pattern, it is necessary to preprocess the target diffraction pattern. Both numerical simulations and experimental results show the validity of the proposed method.
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