Highly corrected close-packed microlens arrays and moth-eye structuring on curved surfaces
- 10 January 1999
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 38 (2), 352-356
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.38.000352
Abstract
The fabrication of near-micrometer-sized close-packed coherent microlens arrays on spheric or aspheric surfaces has been accomplished by use of a compact holographic projector system that was developed for producing multimicrometer down to submicrometer grid patterning on curved surfaces. The microlens arrays, which can be utilized as moth-eye relief structures, are formed in a photoimageable bisbenzocyclobutene polymeric resin by a photolytic process involving standing-wave interference patterns from the holographic projector system. Because of absorption, each integral microlenslet of the finished arrays possesses a near-paraboloid contour. The trajectories of the meridional rays from each microlenslet can be optimized to intersect at either a single point or a locus of points.Keywords
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