Abstract. We report on the investigation of refractive microlens arrays with diffractive grating surfaces in the context of a microspectrometer array system. The elements fabricated combine the fairly large dimensions of the refractive microlens (990-m diam, 60-m height) with the submicron features of the diffraction grating (1-m grating period) on one transmitting surface. The fabrication process of these elements was studied, as well as their performance with respect to resolution and stray-light suppression. The maximum resolution was 3 nm, and the stray-light suppression 25 dB. We present a concept for a system of miniaturized spectrometer arrays for chemical analysis.

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Abstract.We present miniaturized, focusing fan-out elements. The new micro-optical elements were fabricated using different technologies: double-sided injection moulding in polycarbonate, double-sided photolithography with subsequent transfer in quartz and direct laser writing in photoresist. The fan-out elements were characterized by measuring their efficiency and uniformity, the surface profiles of the microlenses were measured with a Twyman-Green interferometer. The overall performance of the combined, hybrid elements is demonstrated with intensity distributions recorded in the focal planes.

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