Development of high-throughput silicon lens and grism with moth-eye antireflection structure for mid-infrared astronomy

Takafumi Kamizuka; Takashi Miyata; Shigeyuki Sako; Hiroaki Imada; Tomohiko Nakamura; Kentaro Asano; Mizuho Uchiyama; Kazushi Okada; Takehiko Wada; Takao Nakagawa; Takashi Onaka; Itsuki Sakon

doi:10.1117/12.926858

13 September 2012 Development of high-throughput silicon lens and grism with moth-eye antireflection structure for mid-infrared astronomy

Takafumi Kamizuka, Takashi Miyata, Shigeyuki Sako, Hiroaki Imada, Tomohiko Nakamura, Kentaro Asano, Mizuho Uchiyama, Kazushi Okada, Takehiko Wada, Takao Nakagawa, Takashi Onaka, Itsuki Sakon

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Proceedings Volume 8450, Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II; 845051 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926858
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

We have been developing high-throughput optical elements with the moth-eye structures for mid-infrared optical systems. The moth-eye structures are optimized for the wavelength of 25-45μm. It consists of cones with a height of 15-20μm arranged at an interval of 5μm. They are formed on silicon substrate by electron-beam lithography and reactive ion etching. As a verification of the usefulness of moth-eye, a double-sided moth-eye silicon plane was fabricated. It shows a transmittance increase of 60% compared with the unprocessed silicon plane. As the first trial of the moth-eye optical element, two silicon lenses with single-sided moth-eye were fabricated. One is a plane-convex lens with the moth-eye on the convex surface. The size of the moth-eye formed region is 30 mm x 30 mm. Its focal length is 186 mm. The other one is a biconvex lens with moth-eye formed region of Φ 33 mm and a focal length of 94 mm. Uniform moth-eye pattern was fabricated especially for the second lens sample. Imaging test with the first sample showed that neither image degradation nor focal length variation was induced by the moth-eye fabrication. As a step to grism with moth-eye, a moth-eye grating sample was fabricated. The grating pattern (Grating constant: 124.9μm, Blaze angle: 4 deg) was successfully fabricated with anisotropic etching. Moth-eye patterns were fabricated on the grating surface. Although the resulted moth-eye was successfully fabricated in the most regions, some non-uniformity was found. It can be attributed to unevenness of resist coating, and improvement of coating method is needed.

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Takafumi Kamizuka, Takashi Miyata, Shigeyuki Sako, Hiroaki Imada, Tomohiko Nakamura, Kentaro Asano, Mizuho Uchiyama, Kazushi Okada, Takehiko Wada, Takao Nakagawa, Takashi Onaka, and Itsuki Sakon "Development of high-throughput silicon lens and grism with moth-eye antireflection structure for mid-infrared astronomy", Proc. SPIE 8450, Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II, 845051 (13 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926858

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