Fabrication of PDMS microlens array by digital maskless grayscale lithography and replica molding technique

This paper presents a facile and effective method to fabricate microlens array in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). The microlens array model is fabricated in photoresist via digital maskless grayscale lithography technique and the replica molding technique is used to fabricate PDMS microlens array. A convex PDMS microlens array with rectangular aperture and concave PDMS microlens array with hexagonal aperture are fabricated. The morphological characteristics of the microlens arrays are measured by microscope and 3D profiler. The results indicate that the profiles of the PDMS microlens arrays are clear and distinct. This method provides a simple and low-cost approach to prepare large area, concave or convex with arbitrary shape microlens array, which has potential application in many optoelectronic devices.     

紫外衍射微透镜阵列的设计与制备

为了提高紫外焦平面阵列的填充因子,可以通过微透镜阵列与紫外焦平面阵列的集成,以改善紫外焦平面阵列的探测性能。根据标量衍射理论设计了用于日盲型紫外焦平面阵列的128×128衍射微透镜阵列,其工作中心波长为350nm,单元透镜F数为F/3.56。采用组合多层镀膜与剥离的工艺方法制备了128×128衍射微透镜阵列,对具体的工艺流程和制备误差进行了分析,测量了衍射微透镜阵列的光学性能。实验结果表明:衍射微透镜阵列的衍射效率为88%,与理论值95%有偏差,制备误差主要来自对准误差和线宽误差。紫外衍射微透镜阵列具有均匀的焦斑分布,与紫外焦平面阵列单片集成能较好地改善器件的整体性能。     

Silicon microlens structures fabricated by scanning-probe gray-scale oxidation

We report on the micromachining of silicon microlens structures by use of scanning-probe gray-scale anodic oxidation along with dry anisotropic etching. Convex, concave, and arbitrarily shaped silicon microlenses with diameters as small as 2 microm are demonstrated. We also confirm the high fidelity of pattern transfer between the probe-induced oxides and the etched silicon microlens structures. Besides the flexibility, the important features of scanning-probe gray-scale anodic oxidation are small pixel size and pitch (of the order of tens of nanometers), an unlimited number of gray-scale levels, and the possibility of creating arbitrarily designed microlens structures with exquisite precision and resolution. With this approach, refractive, diffractive, and hybrid microlens arrays can be developed to create innovative optical components.     

凹折射微透镜阵列的离子束刻蚀制作

利用光刻热熔成形工艺及离子束刻蚀制作 12 8× 12 8元凹微透镜阵列。所制硅及石英凹微透镜的典型基本图形分别为凹球冠形、凹柱形和矩顶凹面形。分析了在光致抗蚀剂柱凹微透镜图形制作过程中的膜系匹配特性 ,与制作该种微透镜有关的光掩模版的主要结构参数 ,以及光致抗蚀剂掩模工艺参数的控制依据等。探讨了在凹微透镜器件制作基础上利用成膜工艺开展平面折射微透镜器件制作的问题。采用扫描电子显微镜 (SEM)和表面轮廓仪测试了所制石英凹微透镜阵列的表面微结构形貌。给出了所制石英凹微透镜阵列远场光学特性的测试结果。     

Diffractive Microlens Array Monolithic Integration with PtSi Focal Plane array

Diffractive microlens arrays can completely collect the light at the focal plane and concentrate it into a smaller spot size on the detector plane, the photodetector area can be substantially reduced. Increased gamma radiation hardening and noise reduction result from the decrease in photodetector sensitive area. The diffractive microlens arrays have been designed by considering the correlative optical and processing parameters for PtSi focal plane array. They have been fabricated on the backside of PtSi focal plane array chip by successive photolithography and Ar⁺ ion-beam-etching technique. The alignment of microlens array with PtSi focal plane array was completed by a backside aligner with IR light source. The practical processes and fabrication method are discussed. The performance parameters of PtSi FPA with diffractive microlens array are presented.     

液晶实时掩膜技术制作连续微光学元件

提出制作连续微光学元件的一种新技术———液晶实时掩膜技术 ,阐述了其基本原理和制作方法。基于部分相干光成像理论 ,采用计算机模拟了用实时掩膜制作微透镜和微轴锥镜阵列的过程。同时建立了实验装置进行实验 ,用全色银盐干板 (Kodak 131)通过酶刻蚀得到口径为 118.7μm ,深为 1.32 2 μm的 5 6× 48的轴锥镜的列阵。     

Liquid-crystal microlens arrays using patterned polymer networks

A real-time dynamically tunable-focus microlens array made from a polymer-liquid-crystal (LC) composite is demonstrated. The polymer was first patterned in microlens array cavities by lamination, and the LC-monomer mixture was then injected to the molded polymer cavities and finally stabilized by UV light-induced networks. Using this new fabrication method, we demonstrated a lens with a spherical shape and a glazed surface. This LC-based microlens can reach approximately 100% light efficiency for linearly polarized light. The saturation voltage of the lens is approximately 60 Vrms, and the response time is approximately 30 ms.     

Reduction of distortion aberration in imaging systems by using a microlens array

This paper presents a technique that distortion aberrations of an optical imaging system can be reduced by using spherical lenses accompanying a microlens array. This technique is implemented by putting a microlens array on the intermediate image plane in the imaging system. Our experimental result confirmed that distortion aberrations can be obviously reduced after applying our proposed techniques.     

Hybrid Integration Between Long Focus Microlens Array and IR Detector Array

A special method, named step simulation method, is proposed for fabricating Si microlens array to improve the performance of infrared focal plane array (IR FPA). The focus length of rectangle-based multistep microlens array with element dimension of 40 µm×30 µm is 885.4 µm by the method, which is much longer than the focus length of microlens array fabricated by conventional Fresnel binary optics technique., The large-scale 256×256 element microlens array is hybridintegrated with the PtSi Schottky-barrier IR FPA by optical adhesive. The test results show that diffractive spot size of the microlens is 17 µm×15 µm and the average optical response of the IR FPA is increased by a factor of 2.4.     

"之"字形光栅衍射特性的数值模拟研究

新近提出的光学色散元件"之"字形光栅具有优越的衍射特征,在光谱测量和分析中具有重要的应用价值.本文基于卷积定理,采用一种新的数值计算方法对应用于X射线波段的"之"字形光栅的衍射模式进行了模拟计算,并将其衍射模式与传统光栅以及正弦光栅的衍射模式进行了比对研究,结果表明:"之"字形光栅可以将高级衍射抑制到低于一级衍射四个量级的水平,具有比传统光栅优越得多的衍射模式,与理论预期结果一致.在此基础上,又分析了实际应用过程中吸收体对X射线的吸收情况给"之"字形光栅衍射模式带来的影响,最终证实了"之"字形光栅具有较强 关键词： 之字形光栅 卷积定理 衍射模式 光谱测量     

Fabrication and characterization of polydimethylsiloxane concave microlens array

Concave microlens array is fabricated with PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) material. Resist thermal reflow method and reverse pattern replication method are employed to fabricate the concave microlens array. The optical performance of the PDMS concave microlens array is analyzed with ray-trace method. Profile of the PDMS concave microlens array is observed by metallographic microscope and Talystep. It is indicated by the results that the surface profile of the PDMS concave microlens array is clear and distinct. Optical properties are also tested with Beamprofiler system. The shine spots on the focal plane of the microscope objective are of highly uniformity, and essentially coincide well with the simulation result. The PDMS concave microlens array has potential application in many optoelectronic devices, such as diffusers and scanners.     

基于微透镜阵列匀束的激光二极管面阵抽运耦合系统分析

为了提升高功率固体激光器中激光二极管(LD)面阵抽运场性能,采用几何光学和数理统计分析的方法,建立了基于微透镜阵列匀束的LD面阵抽运耦合系统的数学与物理模型,对微透镜阵列参数与最终耦合输出抽运场参数之间的关系进行分析,明确了微透镜单元F数、微透镜通光单元数以及微透镜阵列空间周期参数的设计原则.经实验测试,优化设计完成的LD面阵抽运耦合系统光场不均匀度为7.9%,耦合效率为90.7%.     

Simple reflow technique for fabrication of a microlens array in solgel glass

A simple reflow method for fabrication of refractive microlens arrays in inorganic-organic SiO2-ZrO2 solgel glass is presented. To our knowledge, this is the first report that presents a simple reflow technique for transforming a negatively induced hybrid solgel material into desirable spherical microlenses. It is shown that the microlenses have excellent smooth surfaces and uniform dimensions. The reflow technique is considerably cheaper than use of a high-energy beam-sensitive gray-scale mask and is suitable for mass production.     

光场显微镜实现裸眼三维实时显示

提出了一种将光场显微镜与裸眼三维显示技术相结合的方法,实现了利用光场显微镜对微观样品进行三维裸眼实时观察的技术。该技术将光场显微镜得到的子图像阵列直接投影在微透镜阵列的焦平面上,在空间一定区域内双眼可分别观看到两幅不同视角图像,使观察者产生立体视觉。该系统具有结构简单,无需相干光源,无需佩戴特殊眼镜,可多人同时观看等优点,应用前景广泛。     

用于红外焦平面的正方形孔径球面微透镜阵列研究

针对目前红外焦平面光敏阵列中存在的占空比小、光能利用率低的实际问题,展开了正方形孔径球面微透镜阵列制作及其与红外焦平面阵列集成应用的研究.本文从红外焦平面光敏阵列特点入手,对比分析了正方形孔径相比于传统圆形孔径微透镜阵列在光能利用上的优势.提出正方形孔径微透镜阵列激光直写变剂量曝光制作技术,建立光刻胶曝光数学模型和正方形球面微透镜面型函数,以此为基础,编制直写设备变剂量曝光控制软件;利用长春理工大的学复合坐标激光直写系统和等离子刻蚀机进行相关工艺实验,制作了阵列256×256、单元尺寸40×40 μm²、球面半径60 μm、单元间距1 μm的红外石英微透镜阵列;并将其与相应阵列的碲-镉-汞红外光敏阵列进行集成.结果表明:微透镜的占空比达到95%,红外焦平面光能利用率从原来的60%提高到90% 以上.由此得出结论:变剂量曝光制作微透镜技术是可行的,正方形孔径球面微透镜阵列代替圆形孔径微透镜阵列,对于提高红外探测器的灵敏度、信噪比、分辨率等性能具备明显优势.     

用于红外焦平面的正方形孔径球面微透镜阵列研究

针对目前红外焦平面光敏阵列中存在的占空比小、光能利用率低的实际问题,展开了正方形孔径球面微透镜阵列制作及其与红外焦平面阵列集成应用的研究.本文从红外焦平面光敏阵列特点入手,对比分析了正方形孔径相比于传统圆形孔径微透镜阵列在光能利用上的优势.提出正方形孔径微透镜阵列激光直写变剂量曝光制作技术,建立光刻胶曝光数学模型和正方形球面微透镜面型函数,以此为基础,编制直写设备变剂量曝光控制软件;利用长春理工大的学复合坐标激光直写系统和等离子刻蚀机进行相关工艺实验,制作了阵列256×256、单元尺寸40×40μm2、球面半径60μm、单元间距1μm的红外石英微透镜阵列;并将其与相应阵列的碲-镉-汞红外光敏阵列进行集成.结果表明:微透镜的占空比达到95%,红外焦平面光能利用率从原来的60%提高到90%以上.由此得出结论:变剂量曝光制作微透镜技术是可行的,正方形孔径球面微透镜阵列代替圆形孔径微透镜阵列,对于提高红外探测器的灵敏度、信噪比、分辨率等性能具备明显优势.     

平面交叉玻璃波导型微透镜阵列光学性能研究

介绍了平面交叉玻璃光波导型半球形微透镜阵列的制作方法.利用积分形式的光线方程式讨论了半球形微透镜的光学特性,得到了半球形微透镜的光线轨迹方程式和焦距表示式,理论结果与实验数据是一致的.     

用于近场集成光学头的面阵平面微透镜

讨论了采用常规的光刻热熔法及灰度掩模技术制作非梯度折射率型平面折射和平面衍射微透镜的情况。定性地分析了在不同的工艺条件下可能得到的平面端面微光学器件的种类和形貌特征。给出了在石英衬底表面通过光刻热熔工艺和氢离子束蚀刻所得到的球面及圆弧轮廓特征的凹形掩模的SEM照片 ,并对用于近场集成光学头的平面微透镜和半导体激光器的集成结构作了初步分析。利用这一技术所制成的平面折射微透镜可以很方便地与半导体光源等器件匹配耦合及集成固联     

一种大F数微透镜阵列的制备方法

针对大F数(大于10)微透镜阵列难以制备的现状,提出了一种制备大F数微透镜阵列的方法.首先采用传统光刻胶热熔法及刻蚀技术制作出成形的微透镜阵列,再将一层具有较高粘滞系数的光刻胶均匀地涂覆在该微透镜阵列上,在光刻胶的粘滞作用以及烘烤过程中光刻胶自身表面张力的共同作用下,微透镜阵列的F数得到提高.采用该方法制备的二氧化硅微透镜阵列的F数达40,与传统大F数微透镜阵列的加工方法相比,该方法简便易行、制备的微透镜阵列面形良好,且只需调节光刻胶的粘滞系数,即可获得F数不同的微透镜阵列.     

一种新型微透镜阵列成象式投影光刻系统的研究

从理论和实验两方面入手,系统地研究了微透镜阵列的形成原理和制作工艺,分析了微透镜阵列的面形结构,得到了联系微透镜阵列矢高与制作工艺参量的经验公式.并且将四片微透镜阵列耦合,形成一个深紫外光刻的1:1成象的多孔径微小光刻系统.从几何光学理论出发,分析了这个光刻系统综合成象的特点,讨论了这种光刻系统的光学性能,并给出了实验测量方法.