The design, fabrication, and testing of diffractive microlens arrays for use in fiber optic interconnects is presented. Advantages of using diffractive microlenses for fiber interconnects instead of refractive microlenses are discussed. A theoretical discussion of diffractive lens operation including the effects of chromatic aberration on fiber coupling is given, along with equations for mask generation. From these equations, a set of masks to fabricate an array of four phase level diffractive microlenses was produced. Experimental procedures for the fabrication of diffractive microlenses from this mask set are presented. Arrays of binary lenses in photoresist with depth errors of less than 4% were fabricated and test results are given. A novel fiber optic tap utilizing both surface relief microlenses and a volume holographic element is demonstrated. In addition, a fiber array coupler using silicon V-grooves and an array of diffractive lenses is also demonstrated.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/278187 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Creators | Battiato, James Michael, 1966- |
| Contributors | Kostuk, Raymond K. |
| Publisher | The University of Arizona. |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Thesis-Reproduction (electronic) |
| Rights | Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. |
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