A method to accurately control the period of subwavelength planar holographic grating in the fabrication process of guided mode resonance filter

Subwavelength optical element such as guided-mode resonance filter has gained much interest recently due to its properties and applications. It is very hard to fabricate an ideal guided-mode resonance filter with the same parameters as the designed one. The reason is that the resonance wavelength of guided-mode resonance filter is susceptible to the fabrication errors of its parameters, such as the period, the groove depth, the thickness of a guided-wave layer, and the refraction indexes of materials, etc. In this article, a method to accurately control the period of subwavelength planar holographic grating which was used as a sub-layer of the guided mode resonance filter is investigated. Results show that utilizing a convex lens placed in the exposure position can cause the adjusting of the period of subwavelength planar grating more convenient in the holographic optical path during the fabrication process. Accuracy controlling the period of grating which was used as the sub-layer of guided-mode resonance filter has great significance in the fabrication of guided-mode resonance filter.