Abstract:The fabrication of Diffractive Optical Elements (DOEs) involves the structuration of material surfaces with geometries on the scale of light wavelength. Differently to standard photoresists, thin films of amorphous azobenzene-containing polymers (azopolymers) directly develop surface reliefs in the irradiated area, directly usable as phase-modulating masks, acting as DOEs. Surface structuration is the result of an intrinsically reversible light-induced material displacement, which makes azopolymer films usable… Show more
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