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Precision glass molding of high-resolution diffractive optical elements

Prater, Karin  
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Dukwen, Julia
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Scharf, Toralf  
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Thienpont, H
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Mohr, J
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2016
Micro-Optics 2016
Conference on Micro-Optics

The demand of high resolution diffractive optical elements (DOE) is growing. Smaller critical dimensions allow higher deflection angles and can fulfill more demanding requirements, which can only be met by using electron-beam lithography. Replication techniques are more economical, since the high cost of the master can be distributed among a larger number of replicas. The lack of a suitable mold material for precision glass molding has so far prevented an industrial use. Glassy Carbon (GC) offers a high mechanical strength and high thermal strength. No anti-adhesion coatings are required in molding processes. This is clearly an advantage for high resolution, high aspect ratio microstructures, where a coating with a thickness between 10 nm and 200 nm would cause a noticeable rounding of the features. Electron-beam lithography was used to fabricate GC molds with highest precision and feature sizes from 250 nm to 2 mu m. The master stamps were used for precision glass molding of a low T-g glass L-BAL42 from OHARA. The profile of the replicated glass is compared to the mold with the help of SEM images. This allows discussion of the max. aspect-ratio and min. feature size. To characterize optical performances, beamsplitting elements are fabricated and their characteristics were investigated, which are in excellent agreement to theory.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1117/12.2228873
Web of Science ID

WOS:000389085800021

Author(s)
Prater, Karin  
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Dukwen, Julia
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Scharf, Toralf  
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Herzig, Hans Peter  
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Ploeger, Sven
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Hermerschmidt, Andreas
Editors
Thienpont, H
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Mohr, J
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Zappe, H
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Nakajima, H
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering

Publisher place

Bellingham

Published in
Micro-Optics 2016
ISBN of the book

978-1-5106-0133-8

Total of pages

8

Series title/Series vol.

Proceedings of SPIE

Volume

9888

Start page

98880U

Subjects

Diffractive optical element

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glass molding

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glassy carbon

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reactive ion etching

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electron beam lithography

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REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
Conference on Micro-Optics

Brussels, BELGIUM

APR 04-05, 2016

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January 24, 2017
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