Cost-effective mass fabrication of multilevel diffractive optical elements by use of a single optical exposure with a grayscale mask on high-energy beam-sensitive glass

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 4675-4680

  Däschner, Walter ^a   Long, Pin ^a   Stein, Robert ^a   Wu, Chuck ^b   Lee, S H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Canyon Materials Inc   (United States)

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EID: 5644273033     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004675     Document Type: Article

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