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Paper Abstract
A volume phase holographic (VPH) grating achieves high angular dispersion and very high diffraction efficiency for the
first diffraction order and for S or P polarization. However the VPH grating could not achieve high diffraction efficiency
for non-polarized light at a large diffraction angle because properties of diffraction efficiencies for S and P polarizations
are different. Furthermore diffraction efficiency of the VPH grating extinguishes toward a higher diffraction order. A
birefringence binary Bragg (3B) grating is a thick transmission grating with optically anisotropic material such as lithium
niobate or liquid crystal. The 3B grating achieves diffraction efficiency up to 100% for non-polarized light by tuning of
refractive indices for S and P polarizations, even in higher diffraction orders. We fabricated 3B grating with liquid crystal
and evaluated the performance of the liquid crystal grating. A quasi-Bragg (QB) grating, which consists long rectangle
mirrors aligned in parallel precisely such as a window shade, also achieves high diffraction efficiency toward higher orders.
We fabricated QB grating by laminating of silica glass substrates and glued by pressure fusion of gold films. A
quasi-Bragg immersion (QBI) grating has smooth mirror hypotenuse and reflector array inside the hypotenuse, instead of
step-like grooves of a conventional immersion grating. An incident beam of the QBI grating reflects obliquely at a
reflector, then reflects vertically at the mirror surface and reflects again at the same reflector. We are going to fabricate
QBI gratings by laminating of mirror plates as similar to fabrication of the QB grating. We will also fabricate silicon and
germanium immersion gratings with conventional step-like grooves by means of the latest diamond machining methods.
We introduce characteristics and performance of these gratings.
Paper Details
Date Published: 28 July 2014
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 9151, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation, 91515C (28 July 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2055045
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9151:
Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation
Ramón Navarro; Colin R. Cunningham; Allison A. Barto, Editor(s)
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 9151, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation, 91515C (28 July 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2055045
Show Author Affiliations
Noboru Ebizuka, RIKEN (Japan)
Shin-ya Morita, RIKEN (Japan)
Yutaka Yamagata, RIKEN (Japan)
Minoru Sasaki, Toyota Technological Institute (Japan)
Andorea Bianco, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)
Shin-ya Morita, RIKEN (Japan)
Yutaka Yamagata, RIKEN (Japan)
Minoru Sasaki, Toyota Technological Institute (Japan)
Andorea Bianco, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)
Ayano Tanabe, Citizen Holdings Co. Ltd. (Japan)
Nobuyuki Hashimoto, Citizen Holdings Co. Ltd. (Japan)
Yasuhiro Hirahara, Nagoya Univ. (Japan)
Wako Aoki, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Japan)
Nobuyuki Hashimoto, Citizen Holdings Co. Ltd. (Japan)
Yasuhiro Hirahara, Nagoya Univ. (Japan)
Wako Aoki, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Japan)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9151:
Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation
Ramón Navarro; Colin R. Cunningham; Allison A. Barto, Editor(s)
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