Bardinal V, Daran E, Leïchlé T, Vergnenègre C, Levallois C, Camps T, Conedera V, Doucet JB, Carcenac F, Ottevaere H, Thienpont H. Fabrication and characterization of microlens arrays using a cantilever-based spotter.
Opt Express 2007;
15:6900-7. [PMID:
19547004 DOI:
10.1364/oe.15.006900]
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Abstract
We present a quantitative study on the fabrication of microlenses using a low-cost polymer dispending technique. Our method is based on the use of a silicon micro-cantilever robotized spotter system. We first give a detailed description of the technique. In a second part, the fabricated microlenses are fully characterized by means of SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope), AFM (Atomic Force Microscopy) non contact optical profilometry and Mach-Zehnder interferometry. Diameters in the range [25-130mum] are obtained with an average surface roughness of 2.02nm. Curvature radii, focal lengths as well as aberrations are also measured for the first time: the fabricated microlenses present focal lengths in the range [55-181mum] and exhibit high optical quality only limited by diffraction behaviour with RMS aberration lower than lambda/14.
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