High-efficiency blazed diffractive optical elements for the violet wavelength fabricated by electron-beam lithography.
Blazed diffractive optical elements (DOEs) were studied for the violet wavelength by electron-beam lithography. By optimizing electron-beam writing parameters and electron-dose distributions, we fabricated eight kinds of grating (period A = 10-0.54 microgm) with excellent blazed structure. It has been demonstrated that the measured diffraction efficiency values agreed well with the rigorous theoretical ones. For the fine period of 0.54 microm, we confirmed a peak appearance of 75.6% (TE) experimentally. A wave aberration as small as approximately 0.01 lambda (rms) was obtained for the first-order diffracted wave from the fabricated DOEs. Blazed DOEs for the violet wavelength could be used as key devices in a high-density optical disk pickup of the next generation.
Shiono
Teruhiro
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Storage Media Systems Development Center, Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Ltd, Moriguchi, Osaka, Japan. shiono@drl.mei.co.jp
Hamamoto
Tetsuya
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Takahara
Koji
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