Wide phase-mask printing of large area gratings with proportionate investment costs

Yannick Bourgin (1) , Yves Jourlin (1) , Philipp Müller (1, 2) , Bernard Kress (3) , Thomas Kampfe (1, 4) , Ismo Vartiainen (5) , Markku Kuittinen (5) , Olivier Parriaux (1) , Ernst-Bernhard Kley (4)

1 LHC - Laboratoire Hubert Curien
2 IMTEK - Department of Microsystems Engineering [Freiburg]
3 LSP - Laboratoire des Systèmes Photoniques
4 IAP - Institute of Applied Physics
5 department of physics and mathematics- campus of Joensuu

A large-grating printing strategy resorting to an unusually wide phase-mask carrying the essential characteristics of the grating spatial coherence defines a new manufacturing method where the needed investments only scale up slowly with the grating size, thus permitting the origination of grating areas beyond a one square meter area.

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]; Optics / Photonic

Yannick Bourgin, Yves Jourlin, Philipp Müller, Bernard Kress, Thomas Kampfe, et al.. Wide phase-mask printing of large area gratings with proportionate investment costs. 2nd EOS Conference on Manufacturing of Optical Components (EOSMOC 2011), May 2011, Munich, Germany. pp.4388. ⟨ujm-00602521⟩