Proceedings Article | 21 November 2007
KEYWORDS: Digital micromirror devices, Diffractive optical elements, Linear filtering, Zone plates, Diffraction, Digital imaging, Optical lithography, Optical components, Optical filters, Digital filtering
With the development of optical micro-machining technology, micro optical elements, especially diffractive micro lens
are widely applied more and more in the fields of fiber communication, airborne, optical storage, optic information
processing, micro optical sensor and so on. In the ways of fabricating micro optical elements, gray-scale mask method is
much studied and promising. On the basis of digital gray-scale mask technique, a new method, namely digital rotating
mask method used to fabricate diffractive optical elements, is presented in this paper. Applying reduction projecting
system based on digital micro-mirror device (DMD), digital gray-scale mask technique and filter system, using the
output image of DMD to be equivalent to the gray-scale mask, and through the system the equivalent gray-scale will be
projected and imaged on the substrate coated with photo-resist. Finally, the DOEs such as Fresnel zone plate and
large-numerical-aperture diffractive micro lens can be obtained after reduction exposure, development, fixation, and etc.
In the paper, the design theory and method of Fresnel diffractive micro is simply introduced. The main party is the
construction and the function of low-pass filter in the projecting system. Through comparing the relevant micro optical
elements, the importance of the filter is tested.
